This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

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

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.