The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.