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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown