A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

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

Former bath house turns gastropub.

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

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

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

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

This hotel was used during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This turn of the century jail once held Charles Manson.

This whimsical park encourages its visitors and wildlife to roam on and around the various works of art.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Along this stretch of Indiana roadway resides a giant insect composed entirely of scrap metal.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.