Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

This slender three-story building has also had several famous residents.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.