Kansas City, Missouri
Noir Arts & Oddities
Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Denver, Colorado
A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.
Lakewood, Colorado
One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
New York, New York
An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.
New York, New York
Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.
New York, New York
This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.
New York, New York
This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.
New York, New York
Here be dragons.
New York, New York
A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.
New York, New York
A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
New York, New York
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Paris, France
Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.
Paris, France
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
Colleville-sur-Mer, France
A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.
Paris, France
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.
Baltimore, Maryland
Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.