One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

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

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

An abandoned military bunker that has been transformed into an artist's paradise.

Picturesque basketball courts sheltered by historical defensive walls and with an enviable sea view.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Standing 191 feet tall and measuring more than 55 feet in circumference, this is the world's tallest spruce tree.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

The building features one of the last remaining free-floating spiral grand staircases in the U.S.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.