Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
George Washington Bathtub
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
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Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
Cross Village, Michigan
Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.
Kaleva, Michigan
House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
Dayton, Ohio
A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.
Jerusalem Township, Ohio
Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.
Lexington, Oregon
Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Flemington, New Jersey
One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.
Salzburg, Austria
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Los Angeles, California
An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.
Marshall, Michigan
Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.
Hanoi, Vietnam
A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
New Haven, Connecticut
A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.
Moscow, Russia
This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Kobe, Japan
A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.
Dawson City, Yukon
A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.