An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Step back in time at this 1950s display home, built to showcase once cutting-edge electric amenities.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.