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

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

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

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

Where dioramas can follow you home.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

An eccentric park and pool.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

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

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.