Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

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

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.