Lewes, Delaware is a sleepy little historic town. It’s close enough to Rehoboth beach to have that laid back beachy feel, but just far enough to be away from the overload of tourists wandering down the boardwalk eating Thrasher’s French fries.

Tucked back in the plain little town of Linthicum, Maryland is the Star Toys museum. It’s located in Meerkat Meade, a house which sounds like some sort of grand estate left by an elderly benefactor to those furry little rodents who once graced our TV screens. But don’t let the practically hidden driveway and fancy name fool you. Meerkat Meade is actually a small house, the yard overgrown and under cared for—none of it looks very special, at least until you step inside.

It’s really no surprise that Los Angeles is the home of the biggest serial killer art collection in the world.

The first thing you need to know about the Edgar Allan Poe house is that it’s in the ghetto. And I’m talking a Baltimore ghetto, straight out of a scene from The Wire.

Does anyone actually like going to the dentist? Does anyone like it enough to go to a museum dedicated to it? I discovered the answer to that when I visited the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry on the University of Maryland campus in Baltimore, built on the site of the very first dental school.

We’ve all shuffled through galleries of national treasures, observing pieces of history and works of art we have been instructed…