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An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Roadside Americana, fairy tale characters, and Austin quirkiness come together at this magical course in the heart of Texas' capital city.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.