Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A science teacher's dream.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The world's only known button museum.

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

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

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

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.