This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

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

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

New York's oldest magic store.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.