Chandler, Oklahoma
Seaba Station Motorcycle Museum
Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.
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Bonner Springs, Kansas
Barbed Wire Collection
Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.
Cedar Point, Kansas
Graves of Maud and Gus Wagner
Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.
Jefferson City, Missouri
Missouri State Penitentiary
The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."
Saint Charles, Missouri
The Soda Museum & Arcade
A collection of soda memorabilia that spans decades.
Miami, Oklahoma
Coleman Theatre
This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
American Banjo Museum
Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Milk Bottle Grocery
This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Chaffee Barbershop Museum
Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Miss Laura’s Brothel Museum
The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.
Rome, Italy
Fratelli Trecca
Roman-style pizza al taglio arrives here with magnificent, crackly crust.
Rome, Italy
Keats-Shelley Memorial House
Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.
Como, Italy
Roman Baths of Como
This 1st-century CE Roman bath sits under a carpark.
Como, Italy
Tempio Voltiano
Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.
Rome, Italy
The Mouth of Truth
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Naples, Italy
Anatomy Museum of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.
Naples, Italy
Birthplace of the Pizza Margherita Plaque
A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.
Naples, Italy
Catacombs of San Gennaro
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Naples, Italy
The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Rome, Italy
Torre Argentina (Roman Cat Sanctuary)
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Vatican City
'The Vision of Constantine'
This equestrian statue of Constantine the Great has been the subject of criticism for centuries.
Vatican City
Stufetta del Bibbiena
The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.
Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin
World's Heaviest Ball of Twine
Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.
Leicester, Vermont
Queen Connie
A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.
