This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

Hundreds of notes give thanks to the patron saint of lost causes.

This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.

The biggest exposition of dental equipement in Europe. And a Mummy.

These 18th-century paintings of Warsaw were used to reconstruct the city after World War II.