A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Ornate limestone building now filled with geologic specimens, and more.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

This tree was warped centuries ago to serve as a botanical wayfaring tool.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

A series of 33 stone markers maps an ancient 55-mile transportation route.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

Week-long festival in the baby food capital of the world.

Outside Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a marker honors a University without people from the fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.