Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

The site where a nuclear bomb was lowered over 8,000 feet underground and detonated as an experiment in natural gas extraction.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Giant papier mache hog sits on private property.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.