Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

The former headquarters of a leader in the Mexican Revolution, and the site of an often-reproduced image.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

The elevator that makes it possible to fly American flags in bulk over the U.S. Capitol

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

Where the U.S. government kept its actual treasure, before Fort Knox.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

These gardens recreate unique and endangered Michigan habitats.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Dating back to the 1800s, two imposing buildings in Michigan have had countless transformations over the years.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Its floors are marked by colorful cues depicting Michigan's native fauna.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.