Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.