Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
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Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.
Somerset Center, Michigan
This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.
Hell, Michigan
Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.
Detroit, Michigan
The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.
Hamtramck, Michigan
A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.
Detroit, Michigan
The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.
Detroit, Michigan
This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.
Detroit, Michigan
This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.
Detroit, Michigan
Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Detroit, Michigan
Collective made up of artists, musicians, and activists.
Los Angeles, California
A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
Brooklyn, New York
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.