The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

An eccentric park and pool.

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

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

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

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."

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

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

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

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

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

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

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.