Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

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 vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

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

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.