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

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

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

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

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

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

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

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.