The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.

Outside Grand Valley State University, you'll find a bench upon which many were said to have sat according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, waiting for a guide of time.

At HopCat, a marker honors fictional creatures with the ability to travel the missing dimensions of Kcymaerxthaere.

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

What better place to take a seat?

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

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

This family of wooden moose statues have become local celebrities in their hometown.

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

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.