This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

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

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.