The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

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

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

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

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

Kwanu'sila the Thunderbird has been silently watching over Chicago for more than 100 years (kind of).