This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.