This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

This robust fence in front of a historic Georgetown home is likely made from hundreds of recycled Revolutionary War firearms.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.