An eccentric park and pool.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

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

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

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

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

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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

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

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

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

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

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