This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

An eccentric park and pool.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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