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

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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

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

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

One of the oldest continually operated libraries in Kansas.

A rock that was too big to move, so the town just paved around it.

A steeple that now houses a small church.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.