Ischia, Italy
Poor Clares Convent Cemetery
Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.
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Ischia, Italy
Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
Hinsdale, New Hampshire
This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.
Orefield, Pennsylvania
America's oldest drive-in movie theater has been in continuous operation since 1934.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Pettah's beautiful floating market was once a stinky canal in a sketchy industrial area.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Boston, Massachusetts
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Islamorada, Florida
This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.
Florida
This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.
Islamorada, Florida
A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
Miami, Florida
Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.
Miami Beach, Florida
Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.
Miami Beach, Florida
12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.
Key West, Florida
Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Key West, Florida
A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.