The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.

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

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

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

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