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.
Chicago, Illinois
This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.
Chicago, Illinois
Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."
Chicago, Illinois
This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.
Moenjodaro, Pakistan
This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.
Karachi, Pakistan
The headquarters of Pakistan's first press club remains a haven for debate and discussion.
Karachi, Pakistan
For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.
Columbus, Ohio
Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.
Los Alamos, California
This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.
Atlanta, Georgia
This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.
Rockville, Maryland
The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.
Chester, West Virginia
First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.
Euclid, Ohio
This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.
Bay Village, Ohio
The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.
Seville, Ohio
In the Mound Hill Cemetery resides the final resting place of the world's tallest couple.
Leetonia, Ohio
Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.
Goldfield, Nevada
Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.
Al Haouz, Morocco
The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Bailleau-Armenonville, France
A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.