This multisensory alley has the ability to remind bustling citygoers to stop and smell the roses.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

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