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What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

Once a luxurious flagship of the Soviet Union, this Brutalist structure remains a landmark of Tashkent’s communist past.

This small museum takes the business of clowning quite seriously.

The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

A former salt mine is now a cool picnic spot for families and asthmatics.

In 1703, French settlers in what is now Mobile celebrated the first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

This museum stands out for its poignant portrayal of the atrocities of the Vietnam War and serves as a vital educational tool for promoting peace and understanding.

One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.

An oddity shop filled with loads of bones, skulls, crafting materials, vintage taxidermy, and more.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

This carved armchair marks the final resting place for two pals in the Chicago suburbs.

This circus town museum recognizes the outstanding clowns of history.

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

A unique museum that uses visual art and storytelling to reveal the hidden history of the Gullah Geechee and their African ancestors.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.