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A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

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

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

Where dioramas can follow you home.

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

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

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

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

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

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

This site pays tribute to the life of an iconic local dog.