Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

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

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.