This Chicago house was built in 1962 and came to the attention of Nathan Chandler, a furniture collector, 17 years ago. It was recently sold but when you have a look inside it is like a trip down memory lane to the years gone by.

Girard B. Henderson decided to build this impressive underground home in the 1960s and it is pretty cool to see inside.

Levi Bettweiser is a restorer of historical film and recently found 31 rolls of old film taken during World War II. The pictures he uncovered provide a fantastic look at a time gone by.

These high school yearbook photos from 1946 are bit sexist in today’s world but it shows just how different life was then.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Chicago had a flourishing criminal underworld and these photos show a small glimpse into life during this era.

On Christmas Eve in 1914, in the middle of World War 1, something incredible happened.

These vintage adverts might have been the norm back in the day but they wouldn’t go down well in modern times.

This may seem like an impossible task but you can make your very own MP3 player in these simple steps.

These historic and modern photos capture the real differences between the way events used to be and how they are today.

These great historical photos document our very interesting past as a human race.

Used for railroad images in Chicago, this camera reached a height of 3.4 feet (1.06 m) and weighed a massive 1115.4 lbs (507 kg). The camera used plates that were 7.8 feet (2.44 m) long and one cassette weighed about 497 lbs (226 kg).

The Great Depression is the name given to the time in history when the stock market crashed. This fateful event happened 85 years ago on October 29, 1929 and is known as “Black Tuesday”.

These images offer additional insight into past events that shaped the world we live in today.

It is hard not to believe that there is something really weird going when you see these pics.