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For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.