Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."