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

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

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

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

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

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

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.