This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

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

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Dedicated to the humanitarian efforts of the state's former governor.

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

Architectural elements and building materials for this house were transported from Salisbury, England.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?