This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

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

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

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

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

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

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

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.

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