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Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

An underwater city for the dead.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

One of the world's largest shopping malls covers an area of 15 million square feet—and it's still set to grow.

Salt cured mummies continue to turn up in this Iranian mine.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

This vast, water-filled underground labyrinth can only be toured by boat.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.