The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

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

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

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

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

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

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

The world's only known button museum.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.