The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.