Once a giant oak that served as the region's post office.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Hot Doug's "Hot Dog" Stand.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.