Berkeley, California
Berkeley Poetry Walk
A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.
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Berkeley, California
A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.
Virgin, Utah
A kitschy stop on the way to Zion National Park.
Toledo, Iowa
Bronze sculpture paying homage to Norma “Duffy” Lyon, famous for creating a life-size cow made of butter at the state fair.
Sapporo, Japan
Japan’s oldest clock tower has been called one of the country’s most disappointing attractions.
Helsinki, Finland
In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.
Helsinki, Finland
This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.
Helsinki, Finland
The last surviving submarine from a strange chapter of Finnish history.
Mesquite, Nevada
A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Lynchburg, Virginia
A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.
London, England
This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.
Sydney, Australia
Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.
Salem, Oregon
An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.
Rangeley, Maine
Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.
Battle Creek, Michigan
The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.
Juraguá, Cuba
A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.
Brussels, Belgium
Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Carville, Louisiana
This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.
Richmond, Virginia
A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.