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

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

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

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

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

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

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.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

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

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

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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

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

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

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

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

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

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