This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

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

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

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.