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Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

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.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.