What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

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

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

These buildings are a poignant reminder of the thousands of horses and mules who passed through this area of the Shenandoah Valley on their way to war.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A pyramid commemorates the birthplace of James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.