One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.