This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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 twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.