The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

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

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

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