Evanston, Illinois
The American Toby Jug Museum
More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.
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Evanston, Illinois
More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.
Venice, Florida
For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.
Marseille, France
For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.
New York, New York
The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
Owls Head, Maine
Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.
Bristol, England
One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.
New York, New York
What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.
Virginia City, Nevada
Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.
Reykjavik, Iceland
A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Karlukovo, Bulgaria
The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.
Essex, Connecticut
This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.
San Diego, California
This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.
Beatty, Nevada
The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.
Joneikiškės, Lithuania
A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.
Cooperstown, New York
A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.
Collettsville, North Carolina
A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Oxford, Mississippi
William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.
Kilauea, Hawaii
A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.
Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.