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Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

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

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

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

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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