A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The classic lawn figurine now claims this wooded area as home.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.