Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

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

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

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

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

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

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The world's largest talking cow would like to tell you about the benefits of 100% Wisconsin dairy products, if only she still could.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.