Brooklyn, New York
Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
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Brooklyn, New York
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.
Ratanak Mondul, Cambodia
A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.
Krong Battambang, Cambodia
Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
Phumi Khna Rôngvoas, Cambodia
This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
New York, New York
Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.
New York, New York
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
New York, New York
Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?
New York, New York
Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.
New York, New York
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
New York, New York
Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.
New York, New York
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
Rome, Italy
One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Manaus, Brazil
This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.