A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Orcas on display and in the water.

Russian history in San Francisco.

One of the first historical sites of an alternative universe was installed in the town of Paris, Illinois—which is now home to an annual spelling bee of Kcymaerxthaereal words.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Ever wanted to can Spam?

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.