This 1920s railway depot is now home to two unique museums complete with a miniature train ride.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

This "living building" on Georgia Tech's campus is home to a blueberry orchard, honeybees, and more than 900 solar panels.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.