These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

Lined with plaques and tributes to veterans, this patriotic street was founded by Mexican immigrants.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

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

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.