A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

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

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

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

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

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