The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

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

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

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

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.