This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

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

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.