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These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A larger than life statue of a steelworker keeps watch over a closed steel mill.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

This outdoor exhibit features a historic wooden dam once used to help boats navigate the Ohio River.