A wooden Ouija board created with inlaid soil from the gravesites of political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, planchette carved from a fallen tree branch collected at the site of the Weehawken dueling grounds where Aaron Burr fatally shot Alexander Hamilton on July 11, 1804

handmade wooden cabinet on a rotating base with antique locks and keys containing a mystery object.

The entire life of one pen on one piece of paper with text in a handmade wood shadowbox. 

Various items used as cures for hiccups in a handmade wooden cabinet with instructions behind each door.

Antique Abraham Lincoln puzzle with missing pieces constructed of bark from the tree outside Lincoln's childhood home in Hodgenville, Kentucky in a handmade wood shadowbox

Cabinet in the round containing artifacts from the beginning of the traveling American circus constructed of reclaimed wood with LED lights and hand cast copper hardware.

Layered paint collected from every subway station in Manhattan numbered and framed in a found NYPD barricade with a handmade book listing the location of each piece.

Spoons engraved with the date and location of each meal in a handmade  11-foot tall two-sided cabinet.

handmade shadowbox constructed of walnut and glass with pinned paper matches

Dartboard constructed with inlaid soil from each of the fifty U.S. States with the bullseye containing soil from the geographical center of the United States in Lebanon, Kansas, darts carved from oak and the feathers of various North American native birds

Water samples in a handmade reliquary

from left:
Glasgow, KY
Portsmouth, RI
Newport, RI
Berlin, NY
Scotland, PA
Manchester, NH
Versailles, KY
Hamburg, PA
Glasgow, WV
Paris, KY

Paintbrushes created from the hair of various painters, tree branches from New York City Parks, enamel, and steel.

Strange fortune cookie from Chinese delivery encased in a handmade shadowbox.

A uniquely shaped cabinet honoring the life and two gravestones of Benjamin Waldron of Samaria, Idaho. Mr. Waldron has two headstones in the Samaria Cemetery, one for his leg which was amputated after a farming accident in 1878 and another on the opposite side of the cemetery containing the rest of his body when he passed away in 1914.

modified vintage suitcase with velvet lining and good luck charms from around the world

paint chips from four New York City bridges (Williamsburg, Manhattan, Queensboro, Brooklyn) pinned in a handmade wooden shadowbox

Handmade specimen cabinet with cast brass drawer pulls containing wishbones broken every day with another person over the course of one leap year.

Various matches in a handmade shadowbox constructed of reclaimed wood and glass. edition of 10.

Hawaiian lava rock rumored to bestow bad luck if removed from the island encased in a handmade shadowbox constructed of reclaimed wood and glass with a hand stamped metal plate bearing the title.
 

Antique bingo cage filled with preserved quail eggs.
 

A crushed Orange Crush can found on the street in Brooklyn, New York and encased in a handmade shadowbox.

Matches and twigs suspended from string in a reclaimed wood and glass shadowbox 

Water from Ponce de León's Fountain of Youth in Saint Augustine, FL in a found glass bottle reading "water from the Fountain of Youth, St. Augustine, Florida USE WITH CAUTION" encased in a reliquary constructed of wood and glass with an antique hammer

Polaroid photos documenting one puddle over the course of one year as it appeared during every rain storm on 18th Street and 7th Avenue in New York City.

Various broken tools encased in handmade shadowboxes.

A piece of siding encased in a handmade reliquary from the Christopher Taylor House circa 1777 in Jonesborough, TN. The Taylor House is reported to be haunted by the ghost of the seventh president of the United States Andrew Jackson.

A piece of the world's largest ball of twine in Cawker City, KS encased in a handmade shadowbox. 

Handmade cabinet containing all of the ingredients to build an ancient love potion.

A shadowbox with LED light containing a piece of Trinitite. Also known as Atomsite or Alomogordo Glass, Trinitite is a glass-like residue left at the Trinity Site at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico where the first nuclear bomb test occurred on July 16, 1945. 

A piece of siding from the house of Zerelda James, the mother of infamous outlaw Jesse James.  While Zerelda cooked breakfast on the morning of April 3, 1882, Robert Ford assassinated Jesse James in this house in Saint Joseph, MO.

paint chips from the windowsill of a former bank robbed by the infamous Bonnie and Clyde in Stuart, Iowa On April 16, 1934

Remnants of a remote ghost town in New Mexico collected with a former partner encased in glass atop a shaped wood pillar. 

soil samples collected via craigslist organized in population order from greatest to least in a handmade cabinet