Places Edited by Joshua Ginsberg

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

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

An idyllic traditional timber village on a picturesque hill was built for a film.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.