A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

This museum explores the history of stickers and is home to RePEELed, an exhibit featuring sticker art from around the world.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

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

A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.

This mill on Lake Erie appears to shrink as a viewer approaches thanks to an optical illusion.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.