This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

A lone traffic cone perched on a ledge has remained unmoved since at least 2011, unofficially earning the status of a tiny Chicago landmark.

Chicago’s last original drive-in restaurant is a family-run hot dog joint that started in 1948.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

A unique 3-D sculpture based on Rene Magritte’s “The Red Model.”

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."

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

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

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.