The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

New York's oldest magic store.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.