G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

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

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Narrowest house in Boston.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

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

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.