Where dioramas can follow you home.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.