Chicago, Illinois
Ida Crown Natatorium
An eccentric park and pool.
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Chicago, Illinois
An eccentric park and pool.
Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Chicago, Illinois
Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.
Chicago, Illinois
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Chicago, Illinois
This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.
Chicago, Illinois
Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.
Chicago, Illinois
A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.
Chicago, Illinois
A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.
Chicago, Illinois
Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.
Chicago, Illinois
Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.
Chicago, Illinois
A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.
Chicago, Illinois
A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."
Chicago, Illinois
A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.
Chicago, Illinois
Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.
Chicago, Illinois
Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.
Chicago, Illinois
Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Chicago, Illinois
This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.
Chicago, Illinois
A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.