"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

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.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

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

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

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

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

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.

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

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

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

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.