Chicago, Illinois
Heald Square Monument's Statue of Liberty
The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.
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Chicago, Illinois
The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Chicago, Illinois
Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.
Chicago, Illinois
Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.
Chicago, Illinois
A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.
Binz, Germany
A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.
Inyo County, California
This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
Lostwithiel, England
The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.
Bodnant Hall, Wales
A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.
Helsingør, Denmark
Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Washington, D.C.
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
Giverny, France
At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.
Sasebo, Japan
The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.
Moscow, Russia
One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.
Flourtown, Pennsylvania
This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.
Kowloon, Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.
Seattle, Washington
This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.
Estonia
A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A tiny monument to the classic American candy.
Nowata, Oklahoma
To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.
Seattle, Washington
Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.
Austin, Texas
An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.