Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

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

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.