Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
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Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
San Francisco, California
Harvey Milk's (the first openly gay person elected to public office in California) camera shop is now a queer community hub that celebrates his legacy and San Francisco's LGBTQ+ history, past and present.
Phippsburg, Maine
A collection of modern petroglyphs by artist Kevin Sudeith. Hate them or love them, but important to experience.
Hood River, Oregon
Raised catwalk walk through the trees alongside a river starting from an abandoned and colorful pumping station.
Alcorcón, Spain
With remarkable nonchalance, this modest park in Alcorcón brings Greek mythology and astronomy together
Madrid, Spain
A “floating horse” hangs menacingly over the heads of passersby.
Vallecito, California
The cavern’s main chamber is so vast that the Statue of Liberty could reportedly fit inside it.
Darmstadt, Germany
A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Grangemouth, Scotland
The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
Mengwi, Indonesia
A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.
Tokyo, Japan
This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.
Cherry Log, Georgia
An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.
Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.
Nantes, France
Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Somerset, Kentucky
The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.
Pokhara, Nepal
A museum with a window view of the Himalayas and an on-site climbing wall.
Underhill, Vermont
This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.
Toutle, Washington
Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.