The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

The spectacular history of spectacles on display.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.