Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Mexico City, Mexico
A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.
North Miami Beach, Florida
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.
Tbilisi, Georgia
Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
San Francisco, California
An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
New York, New York
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
Los Angeles, California
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.
Washington, D.C.
A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.
Oxford, England
A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.
Millers Point, Australia
This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.
Pushkin, Russia
An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.
New York, New York
A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.
Korolyov, Russia
This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.
Moscow, Russia
Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.