The Art Deco Silver Screen.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

This letter written by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 won't be opened until 2085.

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

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