A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

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

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

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

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

The world's only known button museum.

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

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

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

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A science teacher's dream.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.