A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

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

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

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

A large circus museum with summer performances.