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A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

A New Jersey state park that was once Napoleon's brother's sprawling estate.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The physical legacy of one man’s lifetime mission, following a near-fatal mine accident, to publicly proselytize for Christianity.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia's most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

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