Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.