Places Edited by ickaimp

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

A local prank turned town icon.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.