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The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.