Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

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

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

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

An eccentric park and pool.

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

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

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