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

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

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.