This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

The oldest remaining frame residence in Minneapolis.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.