Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

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

Pizza with a side of fine art.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

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

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.