Bridgeport, Connecticut
P.T. Barnum Museum
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Danbury, Connecticut
After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.
Somers, New York
This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.
Hartsdale, New York
The first pet cemetery in the United States.
Providence, Rhode Island
Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Salem, Massachusetts
They founded the game company that made Clue, Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, and Sorry!
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
New Haven, Connecticut
Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.
Middletown, Connecticut
The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.
Plainville, Connecticut
A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Prague, Czechia
This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.
Prague, Czechia
The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Prague, Czechia
This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.