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BryanKnight

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The Long Island Puppet Theater
Permanently Closed

Hicksville, New York

The Long Island Puppet Theater

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

Vintage equipment fills the museum.
Permanently Closed

New York, New York

NYC Barber Museum

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

Pollywog Holler
Permanently Closed

Belmont, New York

Pollywogg Hollër

An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.

Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart’s signatures and route lines.

New York, New York

Fliers and Explorers Globe

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Oakwood Hospital
Permanently Closed

Maidstone, England

Kent County Lunatic Asylum (Oakwood Hospital)

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

Peek into the room where Vincent van Gogh died at Auberge Ravoux

Auvers-sur-Oise, France

Auberge Ravoux

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

Voltaire in marble resting atop his real, fleshy heart (as captured in 1924)

Paris, France

The Heart of Voltaire

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Paris YMCA court

Paris, France

World's Oldest Basketball Court

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The entrance to the theatre, bar and museum
Permanently Closed

New York, New York

Museum of the American Gangster

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

La Conciergerie

Paris, France

La Conciergerie

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

Musée de l'Absinthe

Auvers-sur-Oise, France

Musée de l'Absinthe

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Diving suit by the Carmagnolle brothers from 1882

Paris, France

Musée National de la Marine

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Gowanus Ballroom
Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Gowanus Ballroom

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

The entrance into the shop
Permanently Closed

Saint-Ouen, France

Francois Daneck's Colonial Concept

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

Pierre Bazalgues Macabre Antique Stand
Permanently Closed

Saint-Ouen, France

Pierre Bazalgues Macabre Antique Stand

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The New York New Church

New York, New York

The New York New Church

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

Museum of American Finance

Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of American Finance

Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?

Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Chicago, Illinois

Pritzker Military Museum & Library

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

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