Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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 spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

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

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.