Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

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

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.

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

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

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

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

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.