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A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

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

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

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.