Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.