Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

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

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

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 single handprint, which, according to Ohio State University legend, cannot be scrubbed off.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."