A converted cattle farm is now a hub of art and theater surrounded by nature.

The whimsical legacy of a Canadian artist.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.