Williams Bay, Wisconsin
Yerkes Observatory
Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.
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Williams Bay, Wisconsin
Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.
Addison, Illinois
Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.
Willow Springs, Illinois
The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.
Villa Park, Illinois
This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.
Elmhurst, Illinois
A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Chicago, Illinois
Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.
Chicago, Illinois
The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.
Chicago, Illinois
A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Chicago, Illinois
A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A science teacher's dream.
Seattle, Washington
A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.
Seattle, Washington
With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.
Seattle, Washington
The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.
Seattle, Washington
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
Brooklyn, New York
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
Queens, New York
Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.
New York, New York
Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.