Minneapolis, Minnesota
Orfield Labs Quiet Chamber
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Brooklyn, New York
This recipe is set in stone.
Gloucestershire, England
A well-studied colony of endangered bats roosts in this abandoned Victorian Gothic mansion.
Nagasaki, Japan
The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.
New Taipei City, Taiwan
A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.
New York, New York
The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.
New York, New York
A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.
New York, New York
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Fountain City, Wisconsin
Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”
San Diego, California
A secluded hilltop monument marks the final resting place of Lucy, Presidio Park's beloved white deer.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Baltimore, Maryland
A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.
Barbados
This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.
Bridgetown, Barbados
This stone commemorates the island's launch into international aviation.
Oistins, Barbados
A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.
Barbados
A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.
Church View, Barbados
One of the last members of the Byzantine Empire's last ruling dynasty is buried in the far-off soil of Barbados.
Conneltown, Barbados
Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.
Harrisons, Barbados
An abandoned lighthouse located on the cliffs of Barbados.
Vågsøy, Norway
Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Winkel, Netherlands
This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.
Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.