A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

An eccentric park and pool.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A 19th-century horse lover's bequest led to the construction of this unique fountain in Chicago.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

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

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

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

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The world's only known button museum.

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

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.