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

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

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

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

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

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

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.