Places diggiosity Wants to Go

In a lighthouse by a vanished sea stands a museum for a man who never existed.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Two gold-painted post boxes to celebrate a local Olympic gold medallist.

A World War II–era submarine museum where visitors can spend the night aboard.

Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.

According to legend, the Devil left a footprint behind after an epic showdown with a traveling priest.

One of the few remaining railroad turntables is hidden near downtown Raleigh.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Albert Einstein would often sit in this chair during visits to the observatory to discuss science with Willem de Sitter.

A lecture hall sink once used by Einstein and other noted physicists is now regarded as a strange science relic.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Indiana's first constitution was drafted in the shade of this elm tree in the summer of 1816.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

For 14 years, this former stray dog greeted every train passenger that arrived in Fort Collins.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.