Rutland, Massachusetts
Rutland Prison Camp
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
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Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.
Leicester, Massachusetts
The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.
Wendover, Utah
A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Clinton, Massachusetts
This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.
San Francisco, California
In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
San Francisco, California
A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.
Newport Beach, California
Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.
San Francisco, California
This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
Bremen, Germany
Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
Washington, D.C.
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.
Naples, Italy
The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.
Yekaterinburg, Russia
It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.
Bolinas, California
This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
London, England
The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
London, England
Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.