The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.