A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

Weighing 30,000 pounds, this monument represents Detroit's first industrial era.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.