Kilkenny, Ireland
Kells Priory
These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.
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Kilkenny, Ireland
These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.
Asheville, North Carolina
Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Spring House, Pennsylvania
A museum of anything and everything Stooge.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Munich, Germany
This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Munich, Germany
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Brooklyn, New York
The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Hamburg, Germany
Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.