Stockholm, Sweden
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This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.
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Stockholm, Sweden
This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.
Spartanburg, South Carolina
A charming monument to a very special dog.
London, England
This informal museum is a magical trove of anonymous art collected from car boots and flea markets.
Glasgow, Scotland
"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."
Easton, Massachusetts
The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.
Northwest Piscataquis, Maine
Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.
Seymour, Wisconsin
A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.
London, England
Several colorful mosaic panels depict the life and creative genius of the Master of Suspense.
Costa Rica
One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .
Queens, New York
An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois, France
This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.
Elgin, Scotland
A baffling beast so absurd a town councilman called it "intellectual vomit in technicolor."
Portland, Oregon
This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Staten Island, New York
Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.
Santa Clara, California
The headquarters of the semiconductor giant has a 10,000-square-foot museum.
Hat Creek, California
The first radio telescope dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Crail, Scotland
Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.
Mount Charleston, Nevada
A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.
Berlin, Germany
This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.
Washington, D.C.
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Washington, D.C.
Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.