A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

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

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

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

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

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

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.

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

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.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.