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Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.