Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Gettysburg Dime Museum
This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.
Bayonne, New Jersey
World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.
Haddonfield, New Jersey
The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Princeton, New Jersey
The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.
Reading, Pennsylvania
A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.
Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania
A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
Bangor, Pennsylvania
This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.
Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.
Bowling Green, Ohio
Evidence from a brutal 1880s murder is on display at this former infirmary house.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.