A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

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

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

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

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

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

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

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

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

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

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

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

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

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

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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