This once rural mansion now sits in the heart of the city.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

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

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

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

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.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.