Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Los Angeles, California
Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.
Los Angeles, California
An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Salem, Massachusetts
The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."
Montague, Massachusetts
Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.
North Adams, Massachusetts
More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.
New York, New York
One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).
New York, New York
One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.
New York, New York
This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.
New York, New York
Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.
Alpine, Texas
This is probably not the Target you're looking for.
Terlingua, Texas
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.