Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

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

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.