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Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.