Ashburn, Georgia
Giant Peanut Monument
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
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Ashburn, Georgia
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
Statesboro, Georgia
The world's largest collection of ticks.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Cartersville, Georgia
These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
Bardstown, Kentucky
The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.
Bayonne, New Jersey
World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.
Morristown, New Jersey
A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
Princeton, New Jersey
One man's lifelong obsession with death.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.
Waltham, Massachusetts
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
Boston, Massachusetts
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Hartford, Connecticut
The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Stamford, Connecticut
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.
Budapest, Hungary
A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.