This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

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

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

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

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

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

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

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.