This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.

One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.