London, England
The Mousetrap at St. Martin's Theatre
The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.
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London, England
The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
A bronze statue to commemorate the former president's visit to a local Polish-American festival.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.
New York, New York
Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."
New York, New York
A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.
New York, New York
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
New York, New York
If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.
New York, New York
A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
New York, New York
The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."
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.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.