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

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

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

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

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

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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.

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

The world's only known button museum.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

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

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

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

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