Chicago, Illinois
Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
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Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
San Francisco, California
This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.
Portland, Oregon
This Portland shop is brimming with natural wonders, local art, and handmade goods fashioned from recycled materials.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Hudson, New York
A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.
Oxford, England
This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.
Basingstoke, England
At this historic pub, you can sit back, sip, and watch a whole century go by.
London, England
This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.
Scotland
A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.
Sheffield, England
Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.
Little Rock, Arkansas
This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.
London, England
The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.
Southampton, England
This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.
Ashland, Massachusetts
A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Kemi, Finland
This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.
Alta, Norway
The world's northernmost ice hotel.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.
Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Québec
This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Wothorpe, England
The ruins of a 17th-century lodge on a grand estate are being slowly restored to their former glory.