This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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.

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

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

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

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

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

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

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

An eccentric park and pool.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.