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Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

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

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

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

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

World War II ended before these tunnels built to protect vital oil from Japanese bombs were ever used.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

No one seems to know who suffered the disappointment at this particular place.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.