Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.