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

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.