To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

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

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

At this airport "microcinema," you can catch a film before you catch a flight.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

This massive solar generating facility in the Nevada desert has been plagued by difficulties.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.