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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

It was meant to help transport wounded soldiers to a secret underground hospital.