The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Wally is the 26-foot-long fiberglass emissary for Garrison, North Dakota, one of the self-proclaimed (and hotly contested) Walleye Capitals of the World.

The rodent-shaped sidewalk imprint that earned worldwide media attention.

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This bullfrog grew to an alleged weight of 42 pounds on a diet of whiskey, baked beans, and June bugs.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

This small, independent museum documents the unique culture of Deaf people in the United States.

He’s not from around here.

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

View Kentucky's beauty and history from the perspective of painter John James Audubon, author and illustrator.

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

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

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

Florida’s largest fish hatchery features aquariums, fishing ponds, and local taxidermy.

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

Small sculpted heads of prominent phrenologists mark the outside of their former headquarters.