Donora, Pennsylvania
Donora Smog Museum and Historical Society
A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.
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Donora, Pennsylvania
A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Kayaköy, Turkey
A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.
Kalaupapa, Hawaii
Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.
Milton, Scotland
This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.
Panhandle, Texas
The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.
Moscow, Russia
Home of the future Emperors of Russia.
Višňové, Slovakia
The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Leadville, Colorado
Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.
Vienna, Austria
Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Rome, Italy
A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
Charleston, Illinois
The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
Plainfield, Wisconsin
Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
Beverly Hills, California
Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."