The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

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

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.