This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

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

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

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

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

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

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Roses and other fascinating flora fill this garden built to commemorate Britain's immortal Bard.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

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

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.

A science teacher's dream.