The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.