A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

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

A big museum full of little worlds.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

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

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.