A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”