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

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

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

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

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.