These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

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

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

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

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

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

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

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

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.