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Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.