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.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

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

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

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

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

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

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!