The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

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

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

America's first public mental health facility.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.