Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.