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TWA Flight 529 Memorial
41.7793, -87.9544
Madrid, Spain
Facade of the Former Mármoles Molina Shop
40.4140, -3.7065
Budapest, Hungary
Ruins of the Ferenc József Bridge
47.4859, 19.0539
Rochester, Indiana
First Death Marker on the Trail of Death
40.9940, -86.2387
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Portland, Oregon
Creepy's
Definitely not a clown bar.
museums
Podcast: The Office of Collecting and Design
Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
food
The Macabre Art of Baking ‘People Pot Pies’
Crafting skin and flesh from the sweet and tasty.
Port Richey, Florida
The Obscuratorium
An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.
Denver, Colorado
The Learned Lemur
A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Office of Collecting and Design
Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.
Santa Rosa, California
Grave of Robert L. Ripley
Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.
Cawker City, Kansas
Eyegore's Curiosities and Monster Museum
Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Darwin and Wallace: A Nature & Fossil Store
Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.
Atlanta, Georgia
Conjoined Calves of the Georgia State Capitol
A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.
London, England
Osterley Bookshop
Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.
Westward Ho!, England
Westward Ho!
How did this lovely seaside English village come by such an unusual name?
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
O'Hurley's General Store
This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.
Savannah, Georgia
Graveface Museum
Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.
Winter Park, Florida
Prometheus Esoterica
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.
Fairborn, Ohio
The Secret Chamber House of Oddities and Artwork
Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.
Permanently Closed
Seattle, Washington
Big Top Curiosity Shop
Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.
Goldfield, Nevada
Hard Luck Mine Castle
This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.
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