Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

An unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.