Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

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

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

An eccentric park and pool.

Honoring Italian greats from Joe DiMaggio to Rocky Marciano.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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

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

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.