This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

A lone traffic cone perched on a ledge has remained unmoved since at least 2011, unofficially earning the status of a tiny Chicago landmark.

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

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

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

A historic 1929 art-house cinema that features independent, classic, cult, and foreign films in an atmospheric setting.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

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

An eccentric park and pool.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

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

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

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

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

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.