The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

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

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

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

A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

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

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.