Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
The Hebert Candy Mansion
This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.
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Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.
Ōme, Japan
A hidden alley with seven corners and handmade cat decorations.
Morganton, North Carolina
An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.
Bélesta, France
Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.
Ayden, North Carolina
This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.
Tokyo, Japan
This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.
Nashville, Tennessee
This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
Kanna, Japan
Fifty-odd dinosaur footprints are preserved on this strip of mountain cliff along with ancient ripple marks.
Sakura, Japan
They say the internet is forever but just in case, the shiba inu behind an iconic meme has been immortalized in bronze.
Stony Brook, New York
Once the site of seances, this restaurant is said to be haunted by several ghosts.
Richmond, Virginia
A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.
Hamilton, Missouri
Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.
Nashville, Tennessee
This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.
Fairmount, Indiana
Two Indiana icons are honored at this tiny museum, which features the world's largest collection of James Dean memorabilia.
Morton Grove, Illinois
Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.
Chicago, Illinois
No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.
Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.
St. Augustine, Florida
The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.
Bangor, Maine
This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.
Columbus, Indiana
The design of this modernist church was revolutionary when it was constructed in 1942.
Machida, Japan
Cute manhole covers commemorate the hometown of the real-life Ash Ketchum who created Pokémon.
Middletown, Connecticut
This statue honoring the most decorated dog of World War I stands in a Connecticut park.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
This memorial is dedicated to a once popular but now defunct discount Shrewsbury department store.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.