Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

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

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

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

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.