America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

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

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."