20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

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

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

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.