An art gallery/gift shop that feels like Tim Burton, Pee Wee Herman, and Jim Henson combined!

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

The buildings around this DePaul University statue create an echo chamber for those standing in the center of the circle.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Honoring the Guinness brewer whose quest for the perfect pint led to the creation of the t-test, a cornerstone of modern statistics.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.

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

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.

This is the last hand-cranked chain ferry of its kind in operation in the United States.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The house where Robert E. Lee planned the Battle of Antietam is said to be haunted by the ghost of a Civil War soldier.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

These Neolithic burial mounds and a still-intact passage tomb may have solar calendar significance on the spring and autumn equinoxes.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.