Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

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

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

A science teacher's dream.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.