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

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

Home to items never before seen by the public.