St. Charles, Illinois
Ghoulish Mortals
This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.
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St. Charles, Illinois
This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.
Chicago, Illinois
Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.
Chicago, Illinois
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Chicago, Illinois
The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Chicago, Illinois
Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.
Chicago, Illinois
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
Chicago, Illinois
A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
DeKalb, Illinois
This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.
Galena, Illinois
The oldest operating hotel in Illinois enjoys a historic (and some say haunted) past.
Madison, Wisconsin
Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Kansas City, Missouri
A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.