Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

The devil masks on display at this small museum are part of an annual festival that has been taking place for centuries.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

This mill has survived a tumultuous past to still produce flour and cornmeal.

This small Arkansas town once had a close encounter with the Beatles, and are determined never to let anyone forget that. Ever.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.