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

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

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

The 606 is a decade in the making.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.