In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.