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Wolf's Museum of Gods and Monsters
Friendship, New York
Wolfgang and Ali Von Mertz's 2023 sequel to their lost Museum of Mystery in Florida. Dark supernatural artifacts, housed in a purple 1855 church.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

Secret Caverns
Cobleskill, New York
The Secret Caverns Experience starts miles from the cave, when travelers encounter the first of its garish, psychedelic billboards.
Shark Girl
Buffalo, New York
An Alice-in-Wonderland-style little girl blessed with a Great White Shark head. Shark Girl wants you to be her friend!
Scary Lucy, Lovely Lucy
Celoron, New York
One town, two Lucille Ball statues. Vitameatavegamin Scary Lucy horrified the entire world; Lovely Lucy healed it, apparently.
Lucy Desi Museum and Desilu Studios
Jamestown, New York
America's favorite 1950s TV couple are remembered in Lucy's hometown.
House of Frankenstein Wax Museum
Lake George, New York
With more torture tableaus than you can shake a stick studded with impaled heads at.
Motorcyclepedia
Newburgh, New York
Collection includes the motorcycle Charles Lindbergh traded for his first airplane, a police bike from JFK's assassination motorcade, and three "Wall of Death" thrill show motordromes.
Niagara Wax Museum of History: Lincoln's Haircut Chair
Niagara Falls, New York
The Niagara Wax Museum of History, specializing in exhibits significant to the region, recreated the Lincoln barber shop scene, featuring the actual chair.
Second Coming House of Prophet Isaiah
Niagara Falls, New York
Prophet Isaiah Henry Robertson was directed by God to decorate his house in advance of the Second Coming.
Santa's Workshop
North Pole, New York
The world's first theme park still celebrates Christmas all summer. Holiday-themed kiddie rides, costumed characters, and a perpetually frozen Pole.
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome
Red Hook, New York
Campy World War I melodrama with dogfighting biplanes and an exploding lingerie shop. Offers rides over the countryside in an open-air cockpit.
Star Trek Original Series Set Tour
Ticonderoga, New York
Elvis impersonator James Cawley spent over 20 years building perfect replicas of starship USS Enterprise sets from the 1960s series Star Trek.
The Leather Guy
Amsterdam, New York
Vaguely weird, one-of-a-kind, giant leather-clad man has stood in front of various businesses for 45 years. Moved to this location in Nov. 2016.
Shrine of the North American Martyrs
Auriesville, New York
Contemplative hilltop of religious statuary and shrines commemorating slaughtered Catholic missionaries.
Steve Heller's Spaceships and Robots
Boiceville, New York
A man who, among other projects, builds spaceships out of cars. Sculptures next to the road.
New York Transit Museum
Brooklyn, New York
Housed below ground in a decommissioned subway station, the city's transit history is told with signs, artifacts, and walk-thru subway cars dating back to 1903.
Coney Island - Sideshows by the Seashore
Brooklyn, New York
Historical playland of the world, with some revitalized cheese and midway romance.
Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York
Huge, ornate cemetery with many prominent dead people. Tours, night walks, art and music events make this a tourist attraction, not just a graveyard.
Brain Museum
Buffalo, New York
Officially known as the Museum of Neuroanatomy, this display of pickled head meat is the largest human brain collection open to the public in the USA.
The Big Duck
Flanders, New York
Built in 1931, the Big Duck originally sold ducks, now sells duck souvenirs to summertime city weekenders.
West Point Museum: War Booty
Highland Falls, New York
The permanent repository of America's war trophies, which include Adolf Hitler's pistol, Custer's last message, and the safety plug pulled on the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
Big Chief: Interstate Muffler Man
Irving, New York
Fiberglass statue of an Indian Chief, arm raised in greeting, along the Thruway on the Seneca Nation Reservation at the Big Indian Smoke Shop.
National Comedy Center
Jamestown, New York
Part museum -- it has Seinfeld's puffy shirt -- but also part interactive experience: you can perform stand-up. Has at least one bench with a secret built-in whoopee cushion.
Grave of Chester A. Arthur
Menands, New York
The bronze Angel of Sorrow lays a Swiffer Duster-like palm frond atop Arthur's sarcophagus.
Herkimer Diamond Mines
Middleville, New York
Two adjacent diamond (quartz) mines vie for gem crazed tourists. The most fun you'll ever have sitting in a pit with a hammer smashing rocks.
Key-Crazy Locksmith Building
New York, New York
Locksmith and metal artist Phil Mortillaro has covered most of the exterior and interior surfaces of his small shop with a swirling assemblage of thousands of keys.