In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.