The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.