The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

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

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.