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Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Bizarre Cavern.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

It would be a crime to miss it.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

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

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.