This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

This hidden jockey “walk of fame” celebrates the winning riders of the Kentucky Derby.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.