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A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Secret Swing.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.