Baltimore, Maryland
The Book Thing
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Fort Worth, Texas
Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.
Bridgewater, New Jersey
American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.
Alexandria, Virginia
The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Butte, Montana
A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
Titusville, Florida
The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.
Bailey, Colorado
A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.
Bristol, Rhode Island
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
Concord, Massachusetts
One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.
Providence, Rhode Island
A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.
Hartford, Connecticut
An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.