New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
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New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Columbus, Ohio
The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Battle Creek, Michigan
The final resting place of the visionary founders of Kelloggs, a global leader in breakfast cereals.
St. Louis, Michigan
This marker tells the story of a town’s toxic past.
Germfask, Michigan
Michigan's first reclaimed art sculpture lounges along the Upper Peninsula's Manistique River.
Grayling, Michigan
At the top of a local ski mountain is a hidden cemetery containing the graves of just two soldiers.
Highland Park, Michigan
Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.
Colon, Michigan
A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.
Hickory Corners, Michigan
Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.
Dearborn, Michigan
Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.
Carp Lake, Michigan
During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.
Petoskey, Michigan
Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.
Rockford, Michigan
With over 5,000 champions, the Hall of Fame continues to draw amateur eaters.
Chicago, Illinois
This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.
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
This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.
Chicago, Illinois
This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.
Chicago, Illinois
This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.
Chicago, Illinois
Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.
Chicago, Illinois
Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.
Chicago, Illinois
First planned industrial community in the United States.
Chicago, Illinois
This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.