Chicago, Illinois
Shit Fountain
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
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Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Los Angeles, California
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.
Kansasville, Wisconsin
The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.
Park Ridge, Illinois
A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.
Chicago, Illinois
These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Lübeck, Germany
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Joliet, Illinois
What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.
Evanston, Illinois
Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.
Evanston, Illinois
More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.
Chicago, Illinois
The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.
Government Camp, Oregon
Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Taos, New Mexico
Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.
Tijuana, Mexico
Tijuana's legendary jai alai or "basque ball" palace is now a massive music venue.
Chicago, Illinois
The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.
Antonito, Colorado
The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Antonito, Colorado
Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."
Chicago, Illinois
This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.