An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

Combination beer garden and music venue in the heart of Wicker Park.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

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

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.