The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This Russian museum stresses the importance of keeping clean and even holds one of Pavlov's dogs.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.