The 606 is a decade in the making.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

A stone face watches over the river.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.