Seattle, Washington
Tree Grate Museum
Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.
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Seattle, Washington
Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.
New London, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.
Mengwi, Indonesia
A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.
Asheville, North Carolina
This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.
Rose Hill, North Carolina
The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.
Guangzhou, China
Three floors above a 2,000-year-old royal tomb is a rare collection of ancient porcelain pillows.
Topeka, Kansas
See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.
Rochester, New York
Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.
Kiama, Australia
At five meters long, that is one big piece of foam poop.
Cartagena, Colombia
The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.
Bristol, Connecticut
Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.
Whipsnade, England
This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.
Seattle, Washington
This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.
Athens, Greece
This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.
Thirsk, England
England's largest white horse isn't even white.
Meyrin, Switzerland
CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.
Tambon Mae Raem, Thailand
You'll never meet anyone this passionate about elephant droppings.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.
Eureka, North Carolina
A sign marks the plane crash that caused two nuclear bombs to fall in North Carolina.
Istanbul, Turkey
This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.
Cork, Ireland
A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A tiny monument to the classic American candy.
Gildeskål, Norway
Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.