Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Baltimore, Maryland
The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Catskill, New York
An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.
New Paltz, New York
The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.
Flanders, New York
A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.
Kingston, New York
An abandoned dollhouse factory.
Woodstock, New York
A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.
Brooklyn, New York
New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.
Brooklyn, New York
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.
Boiceville, New York
Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.
Haines Falls, New York
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
Hudson, New York
The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.