A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.