Seattle, Washington
Fremont Troll
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
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Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Berlin, Germany
An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.
Albany, California
A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Florence, Italy
In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
London, England
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Belvedere Tiburon, California
Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?
San Jose, California
An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.
Napa, California
The largest drain hole in the world.
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.