A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

A Museum Dedicated to the Heroes That Fight Fire.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

The Real LegoLand.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.