Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Maillardet's Automaton
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American axe throwing club.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.
Yonkers, New York
An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Cold Spring, New York
This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.
Tomkins Cove, New York
Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.
Bronx, New York
Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.
Groton, Connecticut
The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Exeter, New Hampshire
Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Providence, Rhode Island
Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."
Somerville, Massachusetts
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
New York, New York
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Stamford, Connecticut
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.
Newtown, Connecticut
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.