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Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.