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

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

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

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

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

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

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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

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

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

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.

The playful side of the Columbus community is on full display.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.