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

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

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

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

This monument owes its name to a quote by the famous civil rights activist and journalist.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

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

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.