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This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

A nature and outdoor art preserve features the large-scale, abstract works of a renowned Maine folk artist.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.