In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

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

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

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

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

Canadian centennial project designed to gather information about UFOs.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.