A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A sprawling museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

Meant for a railway that was never built because of the Great Chicago Fire, these piers still stand nearly 150 years after they were installed.

Twice a year, this road is closed off to allow for the migration of thousands of snakes, reptiles and amphibians between cliffs and a swamp.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.