Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
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Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.
Toronto, Ontario
One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.
Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Chicago, Illinois
What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Chicago, Illinois
Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Center, Colorado
One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Golden, Colorado
The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
New York, New York
A Natural History and Science Emporium.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Lucas, Kansas
Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.