Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

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

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

To find the final resting place of a golf legend, just look for the grave covered in golf balls.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.