Austin, Texas
Museum of the Weird
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Shlisselburg, Russia
An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.
Yaropolets, Russia
An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.
Russia
What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.
Yagodninsky District, Russia
Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.
Kaliningrad, Russia
A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.
Moscow, Russia
This frozen-in-time summer home outside Moscow provides a look at Russian life in the 1950s.
Moscow, Russia
This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.
Sochi, Russia
These limestone cliffs are associated with the Greek myth of Prometheus.
Russia
One of the most popular attractions in the small resort town of Kabardinka.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.
Ostashkov, Russia
Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."