Kewanee, Illinois
Woodland Palace
The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.
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Kewanee, Illinois
The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.
Los Angeles, California
This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.
Lviv, Ukraine
Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.
Mexico City, Mexico
This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.
Mexico City, Mexico
A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Italy, Texas
A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Paradise, Michigan
This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Alpena, Michigan
This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.