ATOM - Aluminum Tree and Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum and Research Center

Located in the lobby of Brevard College's Porter Center for the Performing Arts, in Brevard, North Carolina, is a shrine for fake Christmas trees.

This year's collection includes 30 trees of all shapes and sizes.

Founder-curator Stephen Paul Jackson, 48, started his collection 13 years ago, and it's just grown like Topsy since then.

There's even a satellite museum in Nashville, Tennessee, consisting of 25 trees Jackson shipped to a friend who put them on display.

The "Elvis Tree" (above) has photos of the King hanging from its branches.

The highlight of his collection is his "Tammy Faye" tree, complete with the one-time televangelist's signature fake eyelashes, a pair of pink high heels, and ornaments from Heritage USA, the now-defunct Christian theme park near Charlotte Tammy Faye Bakker operated with her then-husband Jim in the late 1980s.

The tree's decorated with golden balls depicting Tammy Faye and Jim.

Jackson said, "Someone gave me a whole box of these a few years back. I gave them away as presents until I figured out they were valuable."

Hey, better late than never, I say.

Jackson says the museum averages about 100 visitors a day.

There's even a gift shop, where visitors can purchase packets of aluminum tree "seeds" and "seedlings."

Said Jackson, "There are some people who look at these, and they don't get it. That kind of worries me."

The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday throughout the holiday season.

Hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The suggested donation is $2 for adults, $1 for kids.