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.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.