These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

Malaysia's first and only glass temple.

Extravagant mosque honors modern Islam.

These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.