Park Ridge, Illinois
Wood Library and Museum of Anesthesiology
Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.
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Park Ridge, Illinois
Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.
Evanston, Illinois
Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.
Brookfield, Illinois
What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.
Chicago, Illinois
The world's only known button museum.
Chicago, Illinois
A Bibliophile's Dream.
Chicago, Illinois
Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.
Chicago, Illinois
This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Chicago, Illinois
Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."
Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Chicago, Illinois
Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.
Chicago, Illinois
A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Chicago, Illinois
This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Knoxville, Tennessee
Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Bedford, Indiana
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.
Lexington, Kentucky
Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.
Charlestown, Indiana
Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.
Louisville, Kentucky
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.