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56.1004, -4.6366
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-3.7465, -73.2415
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Hicksville, New York
The Long Island Puppet Theater
The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.
40.7689, -73.5218
New York, New York
NYC Barber Museum
This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.
40.7787, -73.9781
Belmont, New York
Pollywogg Hollër
An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.
42.2701, -77.8764
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.
40.6930, -73.9911
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.
51.2691, 0.4854
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Auberge Ravoux
The room where Vincent van Gogh died.
49.0708, 2.1716
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.
48.8673, 2.3384
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.
48.8735, 2.3453
New York, New York
Museum of the American Gangster
This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.
40.7276, -73.9859
Paris, France
La Conciergerie
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
48.8555, 2.3459
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Musée de l'Absinthe
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
49.0718, 2.1679
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.
48.8623, 2.2876
Brooklyn, New York
Gowanus Ballroom
A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.
40.6741, -73.9966
Saint-Ouen, France
Francois Daneck's Colonial Concept
Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.
48.9029, 2.3398
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.
48.9040, 2.3389
New York, New York
The New York New Church
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
40.7473, -73.9801
New York, New York
Museum of American Finance
Ever wanted the laymen's version of your credit card fine print?
40.7062, -74.0092
Chicago, Illinois
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.
41.8806, -87.6247
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