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

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.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

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

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

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

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

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

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

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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

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

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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