A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

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

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

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

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

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

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

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.