Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

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

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

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

World's largest Christmas store.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.