Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

This guide to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago centers on a German U-boat and its young commander, Peter Zschech, during a 1943 depth-charge attack in the Atlantic. It follows the American task group that captured the submarine intact the next year, and the decade it took to bring the vessel to the exact spot where it now sits. The museum's guards and docents have their own stories about the boat, best asked about near the commander's old cabin.