The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The world's largest rotating world.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.