Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

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

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

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

The world's only known button museum.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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