Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A stone face watches over the river.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

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

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A science teacher's dream.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.