The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A picturesque garden with a surprising past.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

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

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.