San Francisco, California
Musée Mécanique
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
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San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's old airport.
Berlin, Germany
Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Wahiawa, Hawaii
Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Lake Helen, Florida
Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Madrid, Spain
Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.
Montreal, Québec
Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Sarasota, Florida
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Vienna, Austria
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Dusseldorf, Germany
An electrical pylon under whose legs a normal gauge train can run.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.