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

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

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

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

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

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

A Bibliophile's Dream.

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

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A cuddly version of a dark mythological creature now acts as the mascot of a town.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.