There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

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

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

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

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

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.