America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.