Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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