From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

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.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

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

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

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

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

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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

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

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

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

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

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.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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