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The Fabric Workshop and Museum showcases fabric and mixed media work by artists of great international renown as well as local and outsider artists.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Thailand's tribute to the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng, in the town the famous pair was born in.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.

A forest of phallic offerings found in a quiet corner of a hotel car park.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

A forsaken beachfront condo abandoned after the Boxing Day Tsunami.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

This floating cinema brings new meaning to the phrase "going out" to the movies.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1893, this Gothic-style castle is now a home for academics.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.