Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Bait and Tackle Shop
A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.
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Brooklyn, New York
A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.
London, England
A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.
London, England
Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.
London, England
This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.
London, England
Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.
North Atlantic Ocean
The lesser-known cousin of the Great Pacific trash island.
Bridgeport Charter Township, Michigan
A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.
Portland, Oregon
An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.
Dublin, Georgia
The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.
New York, New York
A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
San Marcos, Texas
In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.
Seattle, Washington
Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Seattle, Washington
An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.
Djenne, Mali
The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Caue, São Tomé and Príncipe
Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.