This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.