The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Featuring the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania, this drive-in has entertained moviegoers for more than half a century.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

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Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.