The 606 is a decade in the making.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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

The world's only known button museum.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.