Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

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

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

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

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

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

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

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

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

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

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

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