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.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Carcassonne, France
Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.
Los Angeles, California
Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.
Chicago, Illinois
Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.
San Francisco, California
A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Toronto, Ontario
Smallest house in Toronto sits on a lot meant to be just wide enough for cars to drive through.
Astana, Kazakhstan
Iconic pyramid from famed British architect Norman Foster designed to represent all of the world's religious faiths.
Marseille, France
Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.
Gdańsk, Poland
This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Port Townsend, Washington
City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.
Chicago, Illinois
A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Berkeley, California
A storybook European village in Berkeley.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Memorial built in 1922 in remembrance of WWI casualties.
Ubud, Indonesia
Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Brooklyn, New York
If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.
San Francisco, California
Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.
San Francisco, California
A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.