The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus