Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

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

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

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

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

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

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

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

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

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

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

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

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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