The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

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.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

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

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

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

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.