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This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

A huge teapot illuminates a home for the elderly.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.