What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

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

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.