The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

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

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

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.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.