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

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

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

A science teacher's dream.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

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

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

On the grounds of this study, Lew Wallace composed "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" and many other works.

A park where you can watch the highway zoom past.