When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

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

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

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

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The most confusing clock in New York.

New York's oldest magic store.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.