Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

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

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

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

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

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

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

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

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The 606 is a decade in the making.