In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

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

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

This whimsical park encourages its visitors and wildlife to roam on and around the various works of art.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.