The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.