A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

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