Dzitnup, Mexico
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These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
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Dzitnup, Mexico
These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Hokkaidō, Japan
This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
Los Angeles, California
World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Tokyo, Japan
Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.
Hunedoara, Romania
This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Iceland
Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.
Iwaizumi, Japan
A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.
London, England
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
Tokyo, Japan
Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.
Greece
A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.
Chicago, Illinois
Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.
Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.