Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

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

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

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.