Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

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

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."