Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This folk art wall claims to be the world's one and only memorial to the bygone age of hippies.