Austin, Texas
Museum of the Weird
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
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Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
San Vito di Cadore, Italy
While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.
Kremsmünster, Austria
This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
Fort Bragg, California
Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.
Napa, California
The largest drain hole in the world.
Fresno, California
An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.
Niagara Falls, New York
Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.
Leiden, Netherlands
A former plague hospital turned medical museum.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Ostashkov, Russia
Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."
Jamshoro District, Pakistan
The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.
Diligent River, Nova Scotia
Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.
Hong Kong
Venture into the hideout of one of Hong Kong's legendary pirates.
Agua Dulce, California
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Agios Tychon, Cyprus
Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.