Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

A horse-drawn 1858 steam pumper fire engine encased in glass on the front lawn of a Michigan insurance company.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.