A sprawling museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

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

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

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

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

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

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

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

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.