Oamaru, New Zealand
Steampunk HQ
The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.
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Oamaru, New Zealand
The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."
New Orleans, Louisiana
An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.
Cairo, Egypt
A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Brooklyn, New York
Risk arrest while partying to fund art.
Key West, Florida
Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.
Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
Coober Pedy, Australia
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.
Genoa, Italy
A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.
Alrewas, England
In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.
Ninacaca, Peru
A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.
La Besseyre-Saint-Mary, France
Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."
Havana, Cuba
In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.
Havana, Cuba
A Spanish-style estate that has traded black ties for rock concerts.
Havana, Cuba
This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.
Winchester, England
A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.