The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Walk along the intricate path of this stone labyrinth and gardens.

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

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

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

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.