This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

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

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

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

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

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

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

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

This odd-shaped relic from the 1964 New York World's Fair found its way back home to Wisconsin.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.