Alexandria, Virginia
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
An original apothecary from 1792.
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Alexandria, Virginia
An original apothecary from 1792.
New York, New York
A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
Brooklyn, New York
19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
New York, New York
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
New York, New York
Discover the taste of mold.
New York, New York
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Vaglia, Italy
Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.
Denver, Colorado
Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.
Los Lunas, New Mexico
On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.
Monaco
Thousands of costumed dolls fill one of the world's creepiest museums.
Turin, Italy
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Modena, Italy
David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."
Richmond, Virginia
The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.
Richmond, Virginia
A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
New York, New York
A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."
Montague, Massachusetts
Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.
Detroit, Michigan
38-story baroque tower reflecting Detroit's rise, fall, and possible rise again.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Broadway, England
A petite castle folly in the English countryside.
Berlin, Germany
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.