One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.