Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.