Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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

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

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

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

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

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