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Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.