This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

The first American axe throwing club.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Antiques by the Bay.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.