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Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

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

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

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

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.