This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

An eccentric park and pool.

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

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.