This cast-iron canine is a beloved icon among the people of Johnstown and ice hockey fans everywhere.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

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

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

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

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.