Chicago, Illinois
Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
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Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Merida, Venezuela
Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
Eagle, Alaska
The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.
Lund, Sweden
The indecision over what to place in this square was immortalized with a plaque.
Antarctica
This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.
Antarctica
One of America's oldest Antarctic research bases is abandoned but still just waiting for visiting explorers.
Antarctica
This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.
Brallo di Pregola, Italy
An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.
London, England
The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.
London, England
This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.
Walla Walla, Washington
"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."
Jarbidge, Nevada
One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
The Dalles, Oregon
A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.
The Dalles, Oregon
This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Salem, Oregon
An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.
Beila, Mauritania
The largest camel market in West Africa
Hội An, Vietnam
This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.
Olympia, Washington
The remains of a former logging boom town, crumbled away in the forest.
Nome, Alaska
This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.