These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.