The magic's in the hole!

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

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

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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