Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Annual convention held by the largest pyrotechnic community in the world.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.