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

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

London's largest outsider art museum.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.