Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

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

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.