A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.