A honeycomb-like structure of interlocking shelves creates a beehive of books.

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

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.