This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

This small, independent museum documents the unique culture of Deaf people in the United States.

This church doubles a museum dedicated to Norwegian heritage.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.