Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

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

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.