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

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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

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

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

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

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.