Rhinebeck, New York
Wyndcliffe Mansion
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
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Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.
Stromness, Scotland
Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Prattsville, New York
Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.
Ödeshög, Sweden
This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.
Decorah, Iowa
Most comprehensive museum in America devoted to one ethnic group.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.