Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

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

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.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The remains of a massive blast furnace in what was once one of the country's largest iron-producing regions.

The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.