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November 2025

Key West, Florida

Hemingway's Last Penny

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

Key West, Florida

Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum

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

Tourists flock to the buoy (Flickr/Turtle43)

Key West, Florida

Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Don Quixote Dining Room

Tampa, Florida

Columbia Restaurant

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

 Princess Ulele Statues

Tampa, Florida

Princess Ulele Statues

Tampa’s most famous native royal comes alive in a duo of arresting bronze statues.

Humpty Dumpty sits on the wall above the patio at Ulele.

Tampa, Florida

Ulele Fairyland Figures

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

America, America is a modernist sculpture by artist Barbara Neijna found along Tampa’s Riverwalk.

Tampa, Florida

'America, America'

This sculpture is one of many stunning features along Tampa’s Riverwalk.

The Livonian Wolves at the Leaping Wall
Permanently Closed

Chicago, Illinois

Livonian Wolves at the Leaping Wall

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

The map.

Chicago, Illinois

300 South Wacker Drive

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

Willis Tower Glass Platform

Chicago, Illinois

Willis Tower Glass Platform

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The Money Museum

Chicago, Illinois

Money Museum

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

Crown Fountain

Chicago, Illinois

Crown Fountain

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

The arch

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Stock Exchange Arch

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

Trading room circa 1894

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

The sign before it was covered in stickers.

Chicago, Illinois

Beginning (and End) of Historic Route 66

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

The hotel lobby

Chicago, Illinois

Palmer House Hilton

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Exterior.

Chicago, Illinois

The Sullivan Center

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

Chicago Temple

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Temple

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

The newly restored Tiffany Dome.

Chicago, Illinois

Tiffany Dome

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

The entrance to Couch Place today.

Chicago, Illinois

Couch Place (The Alley of Death)

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

The S.S. Eastland being hauled upright.

Chicago, Illinois

S.S. Eastland Memorial

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

As there are no street signs on Carroll Avenue, people spray paint both locations and overhead cross streets to keep others from getting lost

Chicago, Illinois

Carroll Avenue

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Lower Lower Wacker Drive.

Chicago, Illinois

Lower Lower Wacker Drive

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Bronze plaque showing Larado Taft's seated Statue of Liberty

Chicago, Illinois

Heald Square Monument's Statue of Liberty

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

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