This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

An urban laboratory.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The world's largest rotating world.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.