Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

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

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.