This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This "Jewish Sistine Chapel" was designed to reinvigorate Judaism's artistic legacy but was almost lost to misguided restoration.

This ancient tomb in the West Bank is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.

A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.