St. Louis, Missouri
City Museum
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
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St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Brooklyn, New York
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Atlanta, Georgia
This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
New York, New York
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.
Seattle, Washington
This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.
Lakewood, Colorado
At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.
Los Angeles, California
This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.
Cleveland, Ohio
A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
Issaquah, Washington
A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Port Angeles, Washington
Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
Juneau, Alaska
Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.