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Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

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

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

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

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The world's only known button museum.