Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

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

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

Multiple monuments to a grizzled old mutt that survived the landscape of Butte's treacherous Berkeley Pit.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

At the turn of the century, a chair like rock sat at the top of the falls and hosted the winner of a local beauty contest.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

This airfield is home to a number of retired vintage planes in various states of disrepair.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.