In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

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

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

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

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A big museum full of little worlds.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This bridge over D.C.'s Rock Creek Park is sometimes called the "Buffalo Bridge" because of its four buffalo sculptures, which were cast from a single piece of bronze.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.