This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

The first American axe throwing club.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.