Former bath house turns gastropub.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.

These murals have been brightening a Chicago beach for more than 30 years.

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

An eccentric park and pool.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.

One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

Former private property that was hidden up a trail in the woods with thousands of bright yellow daffodils.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

A small burial ground honoring Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War.