A museum celebrating Icelandic history and technology.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

A rugged hike leads to a breathtaking waterfall, once thought to be the tallest in Iceland.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

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

Two statues of the fictitious toy robots that ran afoul of local government

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

Dedicated to the man who created the first radio wave communication system.

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Navy’s preposterously detailed mini battleship took 77,000 hours to complete.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.