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This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

Centuries-old columns from French monasteries provide structure for this courtyard within an Ohio art museum.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

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

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

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

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

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

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

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

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

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

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

The company moved out of its sprawling headquarters, leaving plenty of traces behind.

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