One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

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Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.