This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

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

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

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

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

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

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

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

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

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

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.