The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

When struck, the strange stones in this park ring like bells.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.