A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

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

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

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.