Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

An eccentric park and pool.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

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

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

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

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

A science teacher's dream.