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

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

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

The world's only known button museum.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

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

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

This house was used by the FBI to broadcast disinformation to the Nazis during World War II.

This 500-year-old stepwell descends seven levels deep into the ground.

Once a luxurious flagship of the Soviet Union, this Brutalist structure remains a landmark of Tashkent’s communist past.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Sometimes known as the little Niagara Falls of the Philippines.

This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.