The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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