3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.