Lawrence, Kansas
Museum of Odd
The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.
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Lawrence, Kansas
The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.
Vermillion, South Dakota
One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Coral Gables, Florida
This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Mitaka, Japan
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Brooklyn, New York
One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
Godfrey, Illinois
Though it's thrived abroad, this forgotten Dunkin' rival has just one store left in the States.
Volo, Illinois
Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.
Mount Carroll, Illinois
Former hotel turned into haunted playground.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Burrillville, Rhode Island
This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.
Providence, Rhode Island
This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.
Union, Illinois
At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.
Palatine, Illinois
Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.
Chicago, Illinois
Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.
Mountain Township, Illinois
In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.
Villa Park, Illinois
This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Chicago, Illinois
This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.