Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

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

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

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

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

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

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A science teacher's dream.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

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

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

Kwanu'sila the Thunderbird has been silently watching over Chicago for more than 100 years (kind of).

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

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