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Seattle, Washington

Steve's Weird House

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Roswell, New Mexico

International UFO Museum and Research Center

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Seattle, Washington

Seattle's Official Bad Art Museum of Art

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.
Paris, France

Un Regard Moderne Bookstore

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

KattenKabinet

Cat art as far as the eye can see.
Chicago, Illinois

International Museum of Surgical Science

A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Trundle Manor: House of Oddities

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Washington, D.C.

Culture House

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.
London, England

The London Dungeon

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
Austin, Texas

Uncommon Objects

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Los Angeles, California

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.
Cleveland, Ohio

Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Torture Museum

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.
Hólmavík, Iceland

The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Boscastle, England

The Museum of Witchcraft & Magic

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Santa Cruz, California

Court of Mysteries

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.
Carlsbad, New Mexico

Carlsbad Caverns

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Put-in-Bay, Ohio

Crystal Cave

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Phoenix, Arizona

Mystery Castle

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Paris, France

Musée des Arts Forains

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.
San Francisco, California

Institute of Illegal Images

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
London, England

Novelty Automation

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
Tokyo, Japan

Vampire Café

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Portland, Oregon

The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.