Prague, Czechia
Old Jewish Cemetery
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
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Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
New York, New York
A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.
Avery Island, Louisiana
For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
St. Louis, Missouri
One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.
St. Louis, Missouri
This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.
St. Louis, Missouri
The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.
St. Louis, Missouri
What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Little Falls, New York
Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.
Howes Cave, New York
Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.
Hillsdale, New York
Eight whimsical acres of metal art.
Albany, New York
This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.
Woodstock, New York
A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.
Kingston, New York
An abandoned dollhouse factory.
Elmira, New York
The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.
Newcomb, New York
An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
Kingston, New York
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.
Kerhonkson, New York
"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.