The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.