oddities

34 Places

Seattle, Washington

Fremont Troll

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

San Francisco, California

Loved to Death

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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San Francisco, California

Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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Tonopah, Nevada

Clown Motel

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

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Las Vegas, Nevada

Berlin Wall Urinal

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

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Lancaster, California

Civic Musical Road

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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Los Angeles, California

Urban Light

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Yayoi Kusama Firefly Infinity Mirror Room

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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Ra Paulette's Hand-Carved Caves

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

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Washington, D.C.

Barbie Pond on Q Street

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

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Berlin, Germany

Buchstabenmuseum

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany

Medieval Crime Museum

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

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New York, New York

NYC Barber Museum

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

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Shullsburg, Wisconsin

Gravity Hill in Wisconsin

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

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London, England

The Monty Python Foot

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

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San Diego, California

Space Invaders

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

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Lewes, Delaware

Zwaanendael Museum

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

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Anatomy Museum of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

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Enchanted Forest

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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Nykøbing Falster, Denmark

Museum Obscurum

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

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Detective Bar Progress

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Hollensbury Spite House

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

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Liberty, Missouri

Odd Fellows Home

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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London, England

Public Standards of Length

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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Brussels, Belgium

Black Tower

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Weeping Glass

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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Taiyo Park

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

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Seattle, Washington

Rubber Chicken Museum

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

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Libreria Acqua Alta

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

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Maishima Incineration Plant

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

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Szentendre, Hungary

Szamos Marzipan Exhibition and Workshop

Everything from miniature biblical scenes to life-sized statues are almond-based at this sweet and nutty gallery.

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Nottinghamshire, England

1960s Hyperbolic Paraboloid Gas Station Canopy

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

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Museum of Unnecessary Things

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

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