This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

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

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.