This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

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

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.