An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.