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

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

Inside the center are Italian works of art and a replica model of St. Peter's Basilica.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

A majestic hotel that also stands as a historic relic.

This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

A $600,000 pile of stainless steel balls makes for some rather divisive public art.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

A permanent open-air exhibition of stunning, and inherently American, public art.