Places Edited by annakovach

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Colombia's biggest botanical garden contains plants from all across the country.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.