Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
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Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
New York, New York
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
New York, New York
A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
New York, New York
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Laurel, Maryland
This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Radford, Virginia
Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.
Richmond, Virginia
A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.