Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.