Dozens of large steel sculptures fill this two-acre park outside a former blacksmith's studio.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

This church doubles a museum dedicated to Norwegian heritage.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Burial mounds of prehistoric Native Americans who lived along the DuPage River.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

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

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

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

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A former atom smasher turned into an art gallery.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

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

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

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.