This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

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

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

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.