Brussels, Belgium
Comic Strip Route
This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."
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Brussels, Belgium
This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."
Brussels, Belgium
The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.
Brussels, Belgium
A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Tintin's creator is celebrated in an immersive museum that's an astounding work of modern art.
Cheverny, France
The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.
Brussels, Belgium
From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.
Lititz, Pennsylvania
Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.
Independence Township, New Jersey
This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
Ashland, Pennsylvania
The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Boston, Massachusetts
Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.
Willoughby, Ohio
Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.
Lexington, Virginia
The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.