The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

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

First planned industrial community in the United States.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.