What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

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

A science teacher's dream.

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

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.