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A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

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

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

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

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.