Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

An eccentric park and pool.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

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

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

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

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

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

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