A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

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

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.