A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The world's only known button museum.

The creator of the Kewpie doll's former home has been turned into a museum celebrating her life and work.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

The house is an iconic pilgrimage site for fans of the Illinois-based emo band.