Statesboro, Georgia
U.S. National Tick Collection
The world's largest collection of ticks.
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Statesboro, Georgia
The world's largest collection of ticks.
Decatur, Georgia
This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.
Atlanta, Georgia
This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.
Fayetteville, Georgia
Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.
Atlanta, Georgia
A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.
Atlanta, Georgia
The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.
Decatur, Georgia
A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.
Atlanta, Georgia
A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.
Clarkesville, Georgia
A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit.
Atlanta, Georgia
An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.
Atlanta, Georgia
One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.
Atlanta, Georgia
This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.
Calhoun, Georgia
Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.
Atlanta, Georgia
The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.
Alpharetta, Georgia
A man's home is his castle.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Belhaven, North Carolina
A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.
Austin, Texas
Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.
Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.