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This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

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

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

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

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

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

Where dioramas can follow you home.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

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

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

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

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.