The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

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

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

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

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

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

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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

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

The world's only known button museum.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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