This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

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

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

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

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

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

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

The world's only known button museum.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

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

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

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