A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

The building was originally a gas station built to resemble a Japanese tea house.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

Monkeys inhabit the lush forest surrounding ancient Mayan ruins once considered sacred.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

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

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

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