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.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
New York, New York
The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Gibsland, Louisiana
The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
Norman, Oklahoma
The largest land animal skull ever discovered.
College Station, Texas
Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.
Dublin, Texas
This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Tyler, Texas
A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.
Grand Saline, Texas
A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Dallas, Texas
This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.
Bluff City, Tennessee
A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Italy, Texas
A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.