A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

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

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Follow the path behind this treat-slinging camper van to a sculpture garden in the forest.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.