Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, has a lot of amazing stuff.

Science museums are almost always great.

Science museums are the best.

But at the Museum of Science and Industry right on the shore of

Lake Michigan in Chicago they have some truly crazy stuff. I kid you not at

that museum in Chicago they've got a replica coal mine a full-size fake

coal mine that you ride a cage elevator down into you get on a train down there and you ride around in the

fake mine. It's bizarre right in the middle of downtown Chicago. They've also

at that museum they've got the actual Apollo 8 spacecraft, not a replica of it. They've got the real Apollo 8

module. They've got the thing. They've also got this terrifying mirror maze

that I can't even look at pictures of without getting my stomach all twisted up,

it's just my worst nightmare.

It's the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and they have many cool things that you

can see and touch and get inside and

ride around in. But undoubtedly the craziest thing they have got there is

this which is a real life German U-boat. It's the only one on

display anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. This is a German submarine that the US captured during World War II.

German U-boats during World War II were absolutely devastating. They sunk thousands of Allied ships,

including lots and lots of American ships.

By 1943, the Allies had hunter-killer task forces

assigned to go find U-boats anywhere in the world and sink them because they were so dangerous,

because they were doing so much damage, not just to allied military vessels,

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