Somerville, Massachusetts
Mµseum - The Tiny Museum
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
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Somerville, Massachusetts
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.
Brooklyn, New York
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."
Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
Mountain View, Hawaii
A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.
Hilo, Hawaii
Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
Hoboken, New Jersey
The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.
Kings Park, New York
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
Belize
Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Iceland
A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.
Beppu, Japan
Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.