A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.