A sprawling museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

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

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.