Malta, Montana
Great Plains Dinosaur Museum
This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.
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Malta, Montana
This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.
Two Harbors, Minnesota
This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.
Maribel, Wisconsin
These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.
Little Chute, Wisconsin
An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.
Kaukauna, Wisconsin
This animatronic Christmas village within an industrial park creates a whimsical juxtaposition.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
In 2019, an anonymous photo of a windowless room with eerie yellow wallpaper was posted to 4chan from this building, launching 'The Backrooms', one of the internet’s most massive collaborative horror phenomena.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Enjoy a brandy old fashioned with this petrified pet in a bar devoted to the local press.
Brookfield, Illinois
It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Elgin, Illinois
The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.
St. Charles, Illinois
This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.
Winter Park, Florida
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.
Orlando, Florida
A different kind of swan princess.
Clearwater, Florida
An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Fabric Workshop and Museum showcases fabric and mixed media work by artists of great international renown as well as local and outsider artists.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
As the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, these halls contain everything from dinosaur bones to biological samples collected by Lewis and Clark.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
The preserved remains of the former Milwaukee County Hospital for the Insane are hidden in the wooded grounds of County Park.
Shorewood, Wisconsin
A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.