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The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

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

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

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

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.