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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

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

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

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

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.