Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

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.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

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

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

Named for a prominent scout and explorer, this Wyoming state park encompasses a replica of an 1840s trading post, a 19th-century Army outpost, and early 20th-century automobile lodgings.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

This longship was a gift to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the Anglo-Saxons arrival in England.

Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour has the unique status of being the only Royal Harbour in the United Kingdom.

This curious Tudor-era castle was once home to Napoleon's greatest adversary, the Duke of Wellington.

Two beautiful Victorian-era parks replete with ornamental waterfalls and lakes.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.