A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

Farms are serving pizza made from their own fresh crops, a growing trend in the American Midwest.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

An amazing collection of sculptures and art.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.