Places Kanashii Wants to Go

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A huge old mansion full of thousands of toys, each there to be used and played with.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.