Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

Ancient indigenous sculptures steeped in history and shrouded in mystery.

Part taxidermy workshop, part natural history museum this Michigan destination shows off its dead animals and helps you mount your own.

For more than 50 years, an iconic sign has greeted visiting “fudgies” to the Traverse City area.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

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

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

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

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

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

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

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

This town of 100 people has approximately one bronze sculpture for every two residents.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.