A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.