New Orleans, Louisiana
Dark Matter Oddities & Artisan Collective
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.
Reykjavik, Iceland
An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Tirau, New Zealand
These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.
Bulls, New Zealand
The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.
Marrakesh, Morocco
Morocco's largest Jewish cemetery.
Lisbon, Portugal
Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.
Seville, Spain
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Madrid, Spain
A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.
Matamata, New Zealand
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
Rotorua, New Zealand
Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.
Auckland, New Zealand
A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.
Madrid, Spain
Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.