Brooklyn, New York
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Brooklyn, New York
Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.
Brooklyn, New York
“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."
Hutchinson, Kansas
Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Lexington, Kentucky
Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.
Celina, Ohio
A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Fountain City, Indiana
This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.
Los Angeles, California
What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection.
Uppsala, Sweden
The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.
Hagley, England
An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.
Ironbridge, England
This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Holywell, Wales
Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.
Keswick, England
Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.
Macclesfield, England
One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.
Gateshead, England
Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.
Leek, England
This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.
Leek, England
This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.