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

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

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

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

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.