A Bibliophile's Dream.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

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

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Set sail on a small scale.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."