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

Hidden on the 7th floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

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

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An urban laboratory.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

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

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.