A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

A public work of art that also provides some relief from the summer heat.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

An urban laboratory.

A Viking-themed bar in a canal town for those retreating from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.