Waterford, Connecticut
Seaside Sanatorium
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
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Waterford, Connecticut
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
New Haven, Connecticut
While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Chicago, Illinois
This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Baltimore, Maryland
One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.
Capitan, New Mexico
The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.
Golden, Colorado
The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.
Fort Worth, Texas
Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.