A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

This indiscriminate collection of audio antiques is trying to preserve the history of the audio industry one vintage appliance at a time.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

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

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.