Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.