Boston, Massachusetts
Old Franklin Park Zoo Bear Pens
The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.
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Boston, Massachusetts
The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.
Boston, Massachusetts
Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.
Boston, Massachusetts
From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.
Boston, Massachusetts
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
Springfield, Massachusetts
The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Enter the Forest of the Elves.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.
Alameda, California
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
Oakland, California
A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.
Oakland, California
A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.
Edina, Minnesota
Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.
Gibsonville, North Carolina
A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.
Bucharest, Romania
After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Wayne, Alberta
This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."
Theth, Albania
Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.
San Antonio, Texas
The final resting place of a baseball legend who was better known for his behavior off the field.
Lancaster, South Carolina
The last refinements in the North Carolina-South Carolina boundary were marked with this stone.