A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

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

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An abandoned railroad tunnel forgotten by time awaits inquisitive hikers.