Murfreesboro, Arkansas
Crater of Diamonds State Park
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
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Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.
Bruges, Belgium
Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.
Bruges, Belgium
This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.
Lucama, North Carolina
The original location of Vollis Simpson’s Whirligigs.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.
Danese, West Virginia
This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.
Lyon, France
Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.
Vernon, Vermont
Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Osijek, Croatia
A statue of Paulina Hermann, the eccentric noblewoman known as the "mother of cats."
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Binghamton, New York
This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.
Warsaw, Poland
A delightful museum entirely dedicated to the tiny homes of dolls.
Tallinn, Estonia
"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Southend-on-Sea, England
A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.
Vaals, Netherlands
A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.
Unger, West Virginia
Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.
Carlow, Ireland
Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.