Lincolnshire, Illinois
Par-King Skill Golf
This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.
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Lincolnshire, Illinois
This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!
Lake Forest, Illinois
The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Herrnbaumgarten, Austria
The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Woudenberg, Netherlands
A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.
New York, New York
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
New York, New York
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
Brooklyn, New York
A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.
New York, New York
The most confusing clock in New York.
New York, New York
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
New York, New York
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
New York, New York
A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.
New York, New York
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
New York, New York
A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.
New York, New York
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
New York, New York
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
Brooklyn, New York
Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.
Brooklyn, New York
A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.