Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

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

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

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

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Pizza with a side of fine art.