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A Foundry on a Sleepy Street.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

The Real LegoLand.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

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