A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

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

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A plaque in Madrid’s West Park marks the launch of a queer icon’s unlikely media career.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's longest known cave system.