An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Chiseled out of a sandstone cliff, one farmer's unfinished art project lies in ruins.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.