The beautiful non-repeating pattern honors the Oxford professor who discovered it.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.