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Monadnock Building.

Chicago, Illinois

Monadnock Building

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

The Little House

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

The Little House

True to its name, this little house presents like a dollhouse, and surprising details are revealed with a quick peek through the window.

Shepherdstown Public Library

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Shepherdstown Public Library

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

Walt Disney's Chicago Birthplace

Chicago, Illinois

Walt Disney's Chicago Birthplace

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Musee Industrie Lithique

Laayoune, Morocco

Musee Industrie Lithique

Thousands of prehistoric artifacts from the region around Laayoune are preserved by one man in this small museum.

Entrance to Bohemian National Cemetery. (Wikimedia Commons)

Chicago, Illinois

Bohemian National Cemetery

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

International Museum of Surgical Science

Chicago, Illinois

International Museum of Surgical Science

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Statue of G.V. Black in Lincoln Park, Chicago, erected in 1918

Chicago, Illinois

The Grand Old Man of Dentistry

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

The tomb was built in the 1850s.

Chicago, Illinois

Couch Tomb

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

A Nation of Writers Exhibit.

Chicago, Illinois

American Writers Museum

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Entrance to the museum

Chicago, Illinois

McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

The Red Foot

Chicago, Illinois

The Red Foot

A unique 3-D sculpture based on Rene Magritte’s “The Red Model.”

Space Murals Museum

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Space Murals Museum

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Los Lagartos Statue

El Paso, Texas

Los Lagartos Statue

This statue is in the center of San Jacinto Plaza, commemorating the live alligator pond that once stood in the area.

Marker at the Chamizal National Memorial

El Paso, Texas

Chamizal National Memorial

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

Behold, the world's largest chile pepper.

Las Cruces, New Mexico

World's Largest Chile Pepper Sculpture

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site.

Three Rivers, New Mexico

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

World's Largest Pistachio

Alamogordo, New Mexico

PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio

This is one really big nut.

Sand dunes...NOT snow!

Alamogordo, New Mexico

White Sands National Park

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Summersville Lake Lighthouse

Mt Nebo, West Virginia

Summersville Lake Lighthouse

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

Nuttallburg

Fayetteville, West Virginia

Nuttallburg

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Original bridge across the southern end of Lake Champlain, demolished in 2009

Addison, Vermont

Crown Point Bridge

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

Haymarket Square

Chicago, Illinois

Haymarket Square

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

The Ring

Montreal, Quebec

The Ring

This massive circular sculpture may not be a portal to other worlds, but it does inspire the mind to imagine them.

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