Washington, D.C.
The Exorcist Stairs
The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.
Places I've been
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Washington, D.C.
The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.
Graz, Austria
Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Pompeii, Italy
The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.
Pompeii, Italy
Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.
Pompeii, Italy
Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Annapolis, Maryland
This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.
Kensington, Maryland
The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.
Silver Spring, Maryland
The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Triora, Italy
The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."
Monaco
Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Prague, Czechia
This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.