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This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

New York's oldest magic store.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

A unique gallery filled with art that is interactive, accessible, and generates a ripple effect of creativity

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.