Alexandria, Virginia
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
An original apothecary from 1792.
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Alexandria, Virginia
An original apothecary from 1792.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.
East Jerusalem, Israel
A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.
Jerusalem, Israel
Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.
Ramat Negev Regional Council, Israel
A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Washington, D.C.
Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.
San Francisco, California
Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.