This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

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

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

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

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

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

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

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.