San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
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San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Jefferson City, Missouri
This museum presents a dogged pursuit of 500 years of veterinary history.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.
Battle Creek, Michigan
The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.
West Nyack, New York
A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.
Tlacotalpan, Mexico
The graveyard displays the colonial Mexican and Caribbean architectural fusion that defines this city.
Stonington, Connecticut
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Vail, Arizona
Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.
Assen, Netherlands
Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.
Kabayan, Philippines
Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.
Urbania, Italy
Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.
Encarnación de Díaz, Mexico
An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Toluca, Mexico
The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.
Washington, D.C.
The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Cazenovia, New York
A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.
Lake George, New York
Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.
Andahuaylillas, Peru
In this tiny museum, an unusually-shaped skull that some claim as evidence of extraterrestrials.
San Francisco, California
Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.
Vác, Hungary
Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.
Corfu, Greece
This Greek Orthodox church houses the mummified body of St. Spyridon.
St. Louis, Missouri
When Joseph Marconnott died, he had a unique final wish: to be mummified and put on display.