Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.

Planes, trains, and automobiles have all been sunk as attractions at this Illinois diving spot.

This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Former bath house turns gastropub.