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A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

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

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.