Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Oversized statues are just the tip of this nostalgic Americana roadside attraction.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

A collection of more than 10,000 racist objects that teaches the atrocities of social injustice and intolerance in American history.

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

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

This old school, eccentric, and independent video rental store refuses to die.

Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

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

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.