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

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

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

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

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

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

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

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

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

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.