A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

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.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

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

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

Stone age urban planning.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.