I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

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

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.