A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.