The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

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.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

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

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.