This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

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

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

A monument to the King's final show, complete with a time capsule.

The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.