Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Center filled with hands-on displays served as a tribute to several astronauts with connections to the state.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

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

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.