The Obscura team takes their business to Chicago when a world-class collector requests death-related items. The team soon finds a Second City filled with cadaver tools, off-the-wall wildlife blood and head-splitting sideshow acts.

A British customer tries selling Ryan a kettle that definitely doesn't pour tea. Then an artist enlists Evan to find medical instruments for his insane mechanical sculptures and Mike and Ryan encounter an elephant in the room.

A customer asks Mike and Evan to breath life into his creepy 100-year-old automaton, and Ryan meets an artist needing disgusting props. Later a man who chased Mike with a chainsaw reappears and wants something from him and Ryan.

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike encounters a singing siren hunting for something of the sea variety & Ryan takes on a huge challenge, articulating a full-size skeleton. Then a surprise visit by Gwar may lead to a purchase of a one eyed creature.

An explosion rocks the shop when Mike Sullivan gets his hands on an old detonator. Then Sean Lennon contracts Ryan to articulate the skeleton of a chimera, and Mike and Evan get an extreme dose of oxygen therapy.

On this episode of Dark Matters:The Philadelphia Experiment, Ape-Man Army, Zapped to Death

On this episode of Dark Matters: I Have Einstein's Brain, Unidentified Flying Nazis, Killer Thoughts

On this episode of Dark Matters: Sexy Secret Agent, Full Body Transplant, Honey I Nuked the Planet

On this episode of Dark Matters:: It's Alive!, Tripping with Uncle Sam, My Hand is Killing Me

On this episode of Dark Matters: 21 Grams, Missing Cosmonauts, Sound of Death

On this episode of Dark Matters: Radio Waves of Death, How to Make a Zombie, Jekyll vs Hyde

Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive. Hosted by John Noble.

Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free. The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing -- but at a price. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.

Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.

Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own day-to-day life. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.

Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress foresees cellphones and wi-fi but isn't taken seriously.