This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

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

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

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

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A science teacher's dream.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Secret Swing.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.