A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

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

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

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

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

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

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.