A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a 70-foot-long chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

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

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

Taxidermy, Cigar Store Indians, A Model of a New York Tenement and Delicious Draft Root Beer.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.