Westminster, Maryland
Peep Show at Carroll Arts Council
Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.
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Westminster, Maryland
Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.
Wuxi Shi, China
A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.
Weirton, West Virginia
In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.
London, England
3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.
Cleveland, Ohio
A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.
Norway
Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Cuba
The Cuban revolutionary looks over the country from its highest peak.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
Český Krumlov, Czechia
Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.
Otsuchi, Japan
A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.
Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico
A tomb in the shape of a traditional Mexican hat and shawl for the father of modern rancheras.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Matera, Italy
A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.
Metz, France
A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.
Tirana, Albania
Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.
Dartmoor National Park, England
A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.
Jackson, Wyoming
One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.
Sarasota, Florida
The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.
Linköping, Sweden
From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.
Newport, Rhode Island
The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.