An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

This 19th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

The 10-foot-tall vegetables belong to Michigan’s first food rescue program.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

The murals have transformed a residential alley into a vibrant drive-through gallery.

The first and only museum dedicated to stained glass and horology opened outside of Chicago in 2017.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.