A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

An eccentric park and pool.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

The tragic death of 19-year-old Mabel Tainter in 1886 led to the construction of this unique Victorian-era theater in the northern woods of Wisconsin.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.