Seattle, Washington
Gum Wall
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
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Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.
Seattle, Washington
A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Marion, Virginia
An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
Moundsville, West Virginia
The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.
Beckley, West Virginia
A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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