Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The inconspicuous grave of the University of Illinois' first president is just steps from the main quadrangle.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.

Fragments of a massive unfinished sculpture sit near the main quad of the University of Illinois.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Legend has it this fountain built to symbolize the Pope’s power hides a strange secret concerning Neptune's manliness.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

Although resembling a grand Buddhist temple, this structure is actually the largest mosque in China.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.