Middletown, Connecticut
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A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.
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Middletown, Connecticut
A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.
Brookfield, Illinois
What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.
Brooklyn, New York
The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.
Vienna, Austria
A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.
Paris, France
Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.
Paris, France
Got apples?
Kowloon, Hong Kong
If you've ever wanted to tear Hello Kitty apart with your teeth, this is the place.
Paris, France
This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.
Dedham, Massachusetts
The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.
Touchet, Washington
Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Georgia
Underground monastery and fortress.
Ein Gedi, Israel
As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.
Chiatura, Georgia
These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Lusiana, Italy
Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.
Katskhi, Georgia
Small church on top of a huge rock column.
Anchorage, Alaska
This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.
Mestia, Georgia
Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.
Florence, Alabama
This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.
Sorrento, Italy
An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.
Tomkins Cove, New York
Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.
Lima, Peru
This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.