Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

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

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.