Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

The poet’s boyhood home is now dedicated to celebrating his life and legacy.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

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

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.