Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A Beaux-Arts triumph set to become Ford's innovation campus

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.