Chicago, Illinois
Shit Fountain
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
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Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Chicago, Illinois
A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.
Chicago, Illinois
The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.
New York, New York
A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.
New York, New York
The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.
New York, New York
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
Vysoký Újezd, Czechia
This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Prague, Czechia
Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.
Grünwald, Germany
This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.
Munich, Germany
A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.
Oracle, Arizona
An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.
Payson, Arizona
A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.