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

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.