The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

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

This monument honors the band's impromptu performance at Cadillac highschool's homecoming decades ago.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

Beside some power panels, a plaque celebrates the history of an alternate world.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Concerned residents saved this historic house and garden from demolition.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

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

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

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

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