This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

This unique zoo is the only place in the world where you can see all 15 species of crane.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Enter the Forest of the Elves.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.