An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.