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

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

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

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.