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The world's only known button museum.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

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

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.