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Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

A T. Rex statue dressed as Mister Rogers honors the children’s-television pioneer.

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

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

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

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

At Bern's Steak House, there's always room for dessert—it's just upstairs.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

This "living building" on Georgia Tech's campus is home to a blueberry orchard, honeybees, and more than 900 solar panels.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.