A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

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

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.