Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country. Read more.
This haunting statue of a little girl and her parasol is easy to miss, particularly since legend holds that she regularly comes to life and explores the cemetery. Read more.
Lucent is a mesmerizing sculpture hanging in the lobby of Chicago’s John Hancock Building, certainly lives up to its name. Its 3,115 lights depict a scale map of the stars that shine in the night sky. Read more.
Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America. Read more.
Sitting in Chicago’s Washington Park is an odd little boulder with the inscription, “Tree planted by Ulysses S. Grant, December 6th, 1879.” Of course there is no tree. Read more.
The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892. Read more.
Algren and his cat lived from 1959 to 1975 at the top floor of this elaborately adorned red stone three-flat in Wicker Park. It's marked with a plaque. Read more.
One of the city’s more unusual examples of public art appear as welcoming monoliths on the stretch of Division Street just west of Western known as “Paseo Boricua” Read more.
Michael’s Museum is a whimsical, almost surrealist exhibit of 105 different collections, containing hundreds of thousands of teeny objects ready to inspire curiosity. Read more.
A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard. Read more.
One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Read more.
Behind a gift shop and flanked by vending machines and a smattering of pastel-colored lunch tables, a herd of narwhals is suspended in a perpetual dive. Read more.