Portland, Oregon
The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
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Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Denver, Colorado
Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.
New Orleans, Louisiana
According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.
Belhaven, North Carolina
A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Nashville, Tennessee
This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.
Chipley, Florida
A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Artesina, Italy
Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.
Riverview, Florida
The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales
A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Dublin, Ireland
A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Fort Worth, Texas
A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Safety Harbor, Florida
This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.
Gibsonton, Florida
The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.
Miami, Florida
A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.