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This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

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

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

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

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

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

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

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

A metal skywalk leads to the top of this striking granite outcrop in Porongurup National Park.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.