Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

An unusual statue in Wisconsin of the first daily comic strip character.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

Concrete pillars provide a beautiful canvas for Quebec City's graffiti artists.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

The floating gallery illuminates the heart of Québec City's arts district.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.