Seattle, Washington
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
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Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Wendover, Utah
A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Chicago, Illinois
This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
New York, New York
The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Oaks, Pennsylvania
Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."