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This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

The collection of ceremonial and cultural objects spans many countries and hundreds of years.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

Detroit housing collective working to create an "environment for revolutionary change."

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.