Manitou Springs, Colorado
Emma Crawford Coffin Race
A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.
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Manitou Springs, Colorado
A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.
Hartford, Connecticut
The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.
Oxford, England
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
Masada, Israel
This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.
Toronto, Ontario
A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.
Galveston, Texas
This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.
Beijing, China
This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.
Nervesa della Battaglia, Italy
Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.
Herrnbaumgarten, Austria
The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Gubbio, Italy
Fountain where visitors can earn a license to be mad.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
Kumano-chō, Japan
This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.
Washington, D.C.
One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.
Melbourne, Australia
Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.
St. Augustine, Florida
Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.
Greencastle, Indiana
Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.