Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

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

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

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

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

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

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

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

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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