This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.