Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

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

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

Despite its name, this fast food museum is actually a replica of the ninth McDonald's store.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.