A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A science teacher's dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

You can soak in three relaxing pools filled daily by the tide.

Eccentric sculpture garden brings Basque mythology to life.

This remarkable museum sprung from one of the most important prehistoric archaeological sites in the world.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

Salaguti's live-in museum: a fortress against criticism and consumer art.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

An old wool-washing house filled with Fluxus contemporary art.