An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.