Worcester, Massachusetts
Site of Emma Goldman's Ice Cream Shop
On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.
Washington, D.C.
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.
Nanjemoy, Maryland
The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Arthurdale, West Virginia
The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.
Vidin, Bulgaria
The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.
Gryfino, Poland
Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.
Washington, D.C.
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
Gaffney, South Carolina
The record holder for the world’s largest peach.
New York, New York
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Miyoshi, Japan
A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Wanaka, New Zealand
A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Stoholm, Denmark
Nearly 40 miles and 1,000 years of limestone mines under Denmark.
Tamri, Morocco
Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.
Iceland
Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.
Jerusalem, Israel
This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.
New York, New York
A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.