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The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

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

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.