Boscastle, England
The Museum of Witchcraft & Magic
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
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Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Hebron, New Hampshire
The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".
Oslo, Norway
This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.
Pawling, New York
The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
New York, New York
New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
Queens, New York
Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.
Fallsburg, New York
This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Rosendale, New York
This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.
Staatsburg, New York
An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.
Garrison, New York
This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.
Neversink, New York
The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.
Carmel Hamlet, New York
The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.
Peekskill, New York
Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Temple Ewell, England
Two beautiful Victorian-era parks replete with ornamental waterfalls and lakes.
Washington, D.C.
A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.
Twentynine Palms, California
In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.
Queens, New York
The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
New York, New York
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
New York, New York
The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.
New York, New York
Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.
West Berlin, New Jersey
Destructive children, start your engines.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.