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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

An Airy Would-Be Solution to a Housing Shortage.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

A cruise ship retraces the the route of the doomed RMS Titanic, 100 years later.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.