The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

While seemingly a cruel joke, this bench actually honors an esteemed member of the community who passed away in 2006.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.