New York, New York
The Morris-Jumel Mansion
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
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New York, New York
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
Paris, France
A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Paris, France
The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Grangemouth, Scotland
The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.
Torwood, Scotland
The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Madison, Wisconsin
The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.