"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

This smiling statue memorializes local cartoonist Bob Montana and his legendary creation.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.