This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

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

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.