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An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

Where most of the world's flypaper was made.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.