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A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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

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

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

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

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

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

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

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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