A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.