This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

One of the most powerful computers in the world can be visited by anyone who wants to experience more computing than they can handle.

A muscular Art Deco monument represents the struggle between regulators and unbridled markets.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

What better place to take a seat?

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.