This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

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.

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

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

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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

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