Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

A chapel built by Italian POWs during World War II tells a forgotten tale of the war on the home front.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

Walk in the footsteps of the famed astronaut at Purdue University.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

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

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

A tribute to one of the most famous cowboys on TV, and the consumerism that fueled his popularity.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

This small plaza encourages people diagnosed with cancer to never give up hope.

A larger than life statue of a steelworker keeps watch over a closed steel mill.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.