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A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

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

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

In the heart of the Pine Barrens, entire forests of pitch pines that usually grow 20–90 feet tall only reach six feet in height.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

An unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia.

A bronze statue to commemorate the former president's visit to a local Polish-American festival.