This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.