Nantucket, Massachusetts
Captain George Pollard House
The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.
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Nantucket, Massachusetts
The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Los Angeles, California
Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Venice, Italy
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Agua Dulce, California
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
Los Angeles, California
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
Beverly Hills, California
Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."
Los Angeles, California
A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Ratanak Mondul, Cambodia
A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Khmer Rouge's high security prison.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Los Angeles, California
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.
Los Angeles, California
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."