Buenos Aires, Argentina
Villa Freud
A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.
New York, New York
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Waxahachie, Texas
Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.
Oslo, Norway
One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.
Cairo, Egypt
An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.
Brooklyn, New York
The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.
New York, New York
Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.
Ishøj, Denmark
Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.
Gurdon, Arkansas
The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.
Malmö, Sweden
Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.
Helsingborg, Sweden
From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.
West Tisbury, Massachusetts
A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.
Moscow, Russia
The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.
Bingley, England
The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
Rybachiy, Russia
The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.
West Alexandria, Ohio
This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.
Penedo, Brazil
This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.
Battle Creek, Michigan
The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.
College Station, Texas
Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.
Mauritania
This fortified sand barrier dividing a contested territory is the longest minefield in the world.
Nabi Samwil, Israel
This ancient tomb in the West Bank is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.
New York, New York
A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.