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

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

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

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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.