Chicago, Illinois
‘Eternal Silence’
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
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Chicago, Illinois
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
Geneva, Illinois
This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.
Rockford, Illinois
The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.
East St. Louis, Illinois
An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Villa Park, Illinois
This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.
Joliet, Illinois
What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.
Homewood, Illinois
The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.
Schaumburg, Illinois
The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.
Vandalia, Illinois
Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.
St. Charles, Illinois
A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.
Ashmore, Illinois
This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."
Chicago, Illinois
One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
Evanston, Illinois
A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.
Chicago, Illinois
A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.
Granite City, Illinois
A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.
Livingston, Illinois
Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.
Peoria, Illinois
The remnants of Peoria's proud baseball past stand slightly abandoned, but not forgotten.
Peoria, Illinois
A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.
Peoria, Illinois
These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.
Bloomington, Illinois
The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.
Carlinville, Illinois
Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.
Lincoln, Illinois
Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.
Charleston, Illinois
The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.