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

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

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

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