Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Musée de l'Absinthe
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
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Auvers-sur-Oise, France
One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."
Moscow, Russia
Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.
Walterboro, South Carolina
This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.
Stockholm, Sweden
An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.
Stockholm, Sweden
A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.
Stockholm, Sweden
Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.
Stockholm, Sweden
This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.
Hayakawa, Japan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
Mühltal, Germany
The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.
Nashville, Tennessee
The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Nordkapp, Norway
At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.
Eastport, Maine
Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.
Lahore, Pakistan
These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.
Vilanova de Sau, Spain
A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.
Uribante, Venezuela
A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.
Kalyazin, Russia
Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."
Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
Barboursville, Virginia
The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.