This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground