This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Yo, Adrian!

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Burial site of the notorious Chicago gangster.

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

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

Medical museum focused on antique anesthesiology equipment.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

The company moved out of its sprawling headquarters, leaving plenty of traces behind.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.