Pizza with a side of fine art.

See where Bill Murray kidnapped a hapless Punxsutawney Phil.

In the middle of Calvary Cemetery stands this singular memorial to a small boy who died too young.

This small-town opera house has appeared much more in national culture and history than its charming setting might suggest.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

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

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

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

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

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

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.