Where dioramas can follow you home.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

The history of Reykjavik told through a historical village and live actors.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

A small tower where a philosopher once speculated on human nature and morality.

A ghostly mansion in the middle of downtown Tunis.

A colorful, architectural experiment designed to increase a resident's longevity.

This 19th-century prison once held Irish revolutionary Constance Markievicz, writer Frank O’Connor, and a nine-year-old pickpocket.

This historic high school was saved from demolition to become an island home for Marshall’s creative community.

One of the most notorious leaders of the French Revolution once lived here.

The ruins of a prehistoric village hide on a remote Taiwanese island.

This archipelago homestead-turned-museum has remained the same since its last resident, born in 1897, died in 1973.

This restored 18th-century house was once the home of Lititz's first tobacconist.