Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

Yo, Adrian!

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.