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The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

This unique sculpture proved invaluable when it saved a train from careening off the tracks.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Three bronze deer sculptures relax along the Scioto Mile.

A 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound located along a busy street in Columbus, Ohio.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.