The empty tomb that houses the memories of Roy Bertelli's revenge.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

The world's only known button museum.

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

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

Built in 1933, this unique ballroom is nicknamed the "floating dance floor."

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.