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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

"They died with their boots on."

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.