The 606 is a decade in the making.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

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

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

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This was once the largest four-sided clock in the world (yes, even bigger than Big Ben).

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

Exhibits from an island in Lake Michigan are preserved in this hand-built cabin museum.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Walk up a ramp through a forest for panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.