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The institute’s amazing museum has five galleries that showcase the history, art, and archaeology of the ancient Near East. Don’t miss the Egyptian Gallery’s towering 17-ft (5.2-m) statue of King Tutankhamun.

Built in 1926, this small, ivy-covered chapel features exterior stone carvings of angels, imps, and Adam and Eve. Inside, stained-glass windows illustrate scenes from the New Testament.

Magazine moguls David and Alfred Smart founded this museum in 1974. It might be small, but its contents (ranging from ancient ceramics to 20th-century sculpture) pack an impressive punch.

Rejecting post-Civil War modernity, Henry Ives Cobb’s 1891 campus plan mimics England’s Gothic Oxford University, with this main unifying quad surrounded by smaller ones.

Frank Lloyd Wright described his striking low-rise, Prairie-style masterpiece as “the cornerstone of modern architecture.” The not-so-humble architect built it in 1909 for bicycle manufacturer Frederick C. Robie.

This ornate northern entrance to the Main Quad is adorned with gargoyles. University lore says they represent students’ four years of college life: from struggling freshman at the base to graduation at the apex.

This 12-ft (3.65-m) bulbous bronze sculpture by Henry Moore marks the general area where Enrico Fermi and his team of scientists achieved the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in 1942.

The tallest building on campus is this mini-cathedral named for university patron John D. Rockefeller. It boasts magnficent stained glass, a 72-bell carillon (the world’s second largest), and a 10,000-pipe organ.

Confusingly, the oldest building on campus is not named for its architect, Henry Cobb, but for an unrelated donor, Silas Cobb. Built in 1882, the beautiful Gothic structure houses classrooms, offices, and the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art gallery.

The 1970-built limestone “Reg”, honors Chicago industrialist Joseph Regenstein. Exceptional jazz archives, map collections, and children’s books feature among its seven million plus volumes.