A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

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

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.