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

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.