This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

These murals have been brightening a Chicago beach for more than 30 years.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

Kwanu'sila the Thunderbird has been silently watching over Chicago for more than 100 years (kind of).

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

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