An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A collection of art crafted from various hardware tools.

This monument owes its name to a quote by the famous civil rights activist and journalist.

The final resting place of two unknown soldiers.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

A giant wooden statue of one of the greatest pitchers in 19th-century baseball.

This church doubles a museum dedicated to Norwegian heritage.

Steel remnants of a bridge make up a unique sculpture along the banks of the Illinois River.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.