She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This replica oil derrick stands where a tiny Kansas town struck big in 1852, kicking off America's biggest oil boom.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

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

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.