"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

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.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

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

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

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

After it was swallowed by a Georgian mansion, this medieval castle remained forgotten for centuries.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

This zombie-themed restaurant stands out in the heart of corn country.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.