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A guillotine and an iron maiden (replica).

Tokyo, Japan

Meiji University Museum’s Criminal Materials Department

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

Kreischer Mansion

Staten Island, New York

Kreischer Mansion

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Berlin Story Bunker

Berlin, Germany

Berlin Story Bunker

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

Detective Bar Progress.

Tokyo, Japan

Detective Bar Progress

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

The door to Otto Penzler’s office in the Mysterious Bookshop, marked by police tape.

New York, New York

Mysterious Bookshop

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

America's Most Wanted studio
Permanently Closed

Washington, D.C.

National Museum of Crime and Punishment

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

Littledean Jail

Littledean, England

Littledean Jail and Museum of Crime

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta

Lilburn, Georgia

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

The Geographic Center of NYC is located on a traffic meridian on Queens Boulevard.

Queens, New York

Geographic Center of New York City

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

Upton Chamber.

Upton, Massachusetts

Upton Chamber

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Toad automaton.

Bourton-on-the-Water, England

Dragonfly Maze

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Sacramento, California

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

A bronze fast of a female face atop a pedestal with a lighthouse in the background

New York, New York

Girl Puzzle Monument

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

Bean Puzzle Tombstone

Wellesley, Ontario

Bean Puzzle Tombstone

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

Puzzlewood

Coleford, England

Puzzlewood

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The Slocum collection

Bloomington, Indiana

Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

Roadside America
Permanently Closed

Shartlesville, Pennsylvania

Roadside America

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

Ganatantra Smarak

Kathmandu, Nepal

Ganatantra Smarak

Adjacent to Narayanhiti Palace, this park commemorates those who fought in Nepal's civil war.

Smardale Gill Viaduct.

Smardale, England

Smardale Gill Viaduct

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

Russian Dacha

Smartno, Slovenia

Russian Dacha

This building was recently restored to its original 1908 design, showing the old style of Russian summer houses.

Grave of Beautiful Jim Key

Shelbyville, Tennessee

Grave of Beautiful Jim Key

Known by many as once the world's smartest horse.

Shuttered subway bank branch

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Savings Bank Subway Branch

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

The gates of Timbuctoo.

Smartsville, California

Timbuctoo

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

World's Largest Crow

Belgrade, Minnesota

World's Largest Crow

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

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