A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

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

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.