Giant papier mache hog sits on private property.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

This majestic tree has survived 400 years of storms, droughts, and floods, and is a beloved natural landmark in Missouri.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.