A Bibliophile's Dream.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.