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What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

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

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

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

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

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

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

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

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

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

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

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

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

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

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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