Places Tiffany Funk Wants to Go

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

The oldest house in Chicago certainly doesn't look the part and there are some who say it doesn't deserve its title either.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.