Places Ancientproof Wants to Go

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

This local celebrity earned his fame by doing a job no one else dared.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

In the 1930s, a mysterious murder shook this Northamptonshire village–the identity of the victim remains a mystery to this day.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

This 252 step staircase offers stunning views of San Jose.