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Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.
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Miami Beach, Florida
Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
New York, New York
A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
Cassadaga, New York
Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
Washington, D.C.
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
Pioneertown, California
A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.
Hamtramck, Michigan
A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Joshua Tree, California
An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Avella, Pennsylvania
This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.
Washington, D.C.
There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.
West Glacier, Montana
This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.
Potomac, Maryland
The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.
Kula, Hawaii
A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.
Spanish Fork, Utah
Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.
Becket, Massachusetts
Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.
New York, New York
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.