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Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

This abandoned Abraham Lincoln statue has also earned the honorary of "World's Ugliest."

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

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.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

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

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

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