While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

This tribute to a local man towers within a quaint lakeside park.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

The final resting place of two unknown soldiers.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.