A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

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

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.