Long Beach, California
The Skinniest House in America
The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Long Beach, California
The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Prague, Czechia
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Basin, Montana
What if the cure for all that ails you was as simple as repeated exposure to low-dose radon?
Duluth, Minnesota
The watery grave of an impractical idea.
Atlanta, Georgia
Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.
Westminster, Massachusetts
One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.
Geneva, Switzerland
A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.
Drogheda, Ireland
The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.
Prague, Czechia
A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Ithaca, New York
This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
Pavia, Italy
What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?
Lisbon, Portugal
An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.
Monroe, Connecticut
Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.
Pernik, Bulgaria
A dragon-shaped fountain that is said to dispense healing water—unless you're evil.
Zavikon Island, Ontario
The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.
San Bernardino County, California
The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.
Rennes-le-Château, France
The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.
Theth, Albania
Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.
Robertsfors N, Sweden
The cheese slicer may be a Norwegian invention, but the biggest ones in the world are found in Sweden.
Buffalo, New York
A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.