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A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

This massive and eclectic collection is filled with thousands of sculptures, masks, and assemblages.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A local prank turned town icon.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This roadside stand packs 300-plus varieties of tomatoes, from "Maiden's Fire" to "Kaleidoscopic Jewel."

This 25-foot-tall gorilla made his way from the Wildwood boardwalk to a Pine Barrens gas station and deli.