Cork, Ireland
The Butter Museum
This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.
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Cork, Ireland
This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.
Waverly, Virginia
A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.
Bjarnarhöfn, Iceland
At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.
Toronto, Ontario
In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.
Bruges, Belgium
Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.
Tombstone, Arizona
The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.
Tombstone, Arizona
This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
Foxton, England
The longest and steepest staircase locks in the United Kingdom.
Llangoed, Wales
A little-known castle set in a nature reserve.
Washington, Pennsylvania
Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.
Farmington, Pennsylvania
This historic furnace was once used to produce cannonballs during the Civil War.
Fort Washington, Maryland
A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.
Alexandria, Virginia
The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.
Arlington, Virginia
Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.
Arlington, Virginia
An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.
Arlington, Virginia
The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.
Alexandria, Virginia
An original apothecary from 1792.
Alexandria, Virginia
This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.
Alexandria, Virginia
The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.
Alexandria, Virginia
The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.