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43.6503, -79.3805
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Salem, Massachusetts
Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home
A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum.
42.5215, -70.8921
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem Witch Board Museum
A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.
42.5222, -70.8909
Salem, Massachusetts
The Witch House of Salem
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
42.5215, -70.8989
Capalbio, Italy
Il Giardino dei Tarocchi
Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.
42.4266, 11.4668
Cusco, Peru
Shadow Boxes of Almudena Cemetery
Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.
-13.5267, -71.9864
Paris, France
Père Lachaise Cemetery
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
48.8594, 2.3910
Toronto, Ontario
Friar’s Music Museum
A free museum of Toronto’s untold music history hidden inside a drugstore.
43.6557, -79.3803
Vienna, Austria
'Stock-im-Eisen' Nail Tree
Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.
48.2079, 16.3717
London, England
The Luck of Edenhall
A legend says that if this elaborately decorated glass breaks, the good fortune of its owner's household will also disappear.
51.4966, -0.1722
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philbert the Pig
This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.
39.9532, -75.1594
Manitowaning, Ontario
Manitou Lake
Lake within a lake.
45.7536, -81.9474
Shanty Bay, Ontario
Oro African Church
One of the last remaining structures built by a community of African Canadians in the 19th century.
44.5027, -79.6365
Port McNicoll, Ontario
Martyrs' Shrine
Within the church are the relics of the martyrs St. Jean de Brébeuf, St. Gabriel Lalemant, and St. Charles Garnier.
44.7367, -79.8439
Laurentian Hills, Ontario
Barron Canyon Trail
Travel this route to explore a canyon crafted by ancient glaciers.
45.8897, -77.6358
Montreal, Québec
Gibeau Orange Julep
The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.
45.4957, -73.6568
Toronto, Ontario
Acrotholus Audeti
The remains of the oldest bone-headed dinosaur in North America.
43.6677, -79.3948
Vienna, Austria
Stephansdom Crypt
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
48.2080, 16.3729
Rome, Italy
The Catacombs of San Sebastian
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
41.8559, 12.5163
Milan, Italy
San Bernardino alle Ossa
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
45.4626, 9.1955
Eggenburg, Austria
Eggenburg Charnel
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
48.6434, 15.8145
Marville, France
Marville Ossuary
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
49.4539, 5.4585
Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
48.8343, 2.3322
Kutna Hora, Czechia
Sedlec Ossuary "Bone Church"
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
49.9603, 15.2890
Solferino, Italy
The Ossuary at San Pietro
The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.
45.3736, 10.5681
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