This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.