This museum remembers the tough Mormon trek across America through an intriguing array of artifacts.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

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

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

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

A tribute to the movie stars who fought to keep Beverly Hills separate from Los Angeles.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.