Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

Outsider Art Community.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Historic poems about the noble act of defecating have been preserved on the wall of this old convent.

Tucked away in the forests of Indiana resides an abandoned waterslide that is now a popular graffiti haunt.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.