Fort Bragg, California
Glass Beach
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
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Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Los Angeles, California
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
San Francisco, California
An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.
London, England
This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.
London, England
Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.
London, England
This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.
London, England
An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.
London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Tokyo, Japan
The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.
Paris, France
The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Zagreb, Croatia
Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.
Aguascalientes, Mexico
A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.
Prague, Czechia
Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
Great Dunmow, England
An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.