During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

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

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

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

An eccentric park and pool.

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

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

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

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A science teacher's dream.

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

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.