Farmington Hills, Michigan
Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.
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Farmington Hills, Michigan
Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.
Waterbury, Connecticut
This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Queens, New York
The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.
Brooklyn, New York
Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.
New York, New York
What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.
New York, New York
A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.
New York, New York
This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.
New York, New York
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
New York, New York
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
New York, New York
The saddest little diner in New York.
New York, New York
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
Ithaca, New York
In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Washington, D.C.
There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.
District of Columbia
Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.
District of Columbia
The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.
Hellam, Pennsylvania
Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.
McLean, Virginia
A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.