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This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.

North Dakota's smallest store only has tiny items.

As the glaciers retreated out of northern Wisconsin, this unique natural wonder was crafted.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.