Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Where one of America's greatest songwriters lived before he was Bob Dylan.

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

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

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

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

An eccentric park and pool.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

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

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

Only the original archway remains from the building where a false cry of "fire" started a panic that claimed more than 70 lives on Christmas Eve in 1913.