Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

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

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

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

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

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.