This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

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

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

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