Bodmin, England
Bodmin Jail
This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.
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Bodmin, England
This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.
Poughkeepsie, New York
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.
Danbury, Connecticut
Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.
Newtown, Connecticut
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Tokyo, Japan
A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.
New York, New York
Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.
Željava, Croatia
Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Brentwood, New York
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Zadar, Croatia
A musical instrument played by the sea.
Avigliana, Italy
Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.
Santos, Brazil
This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.
Helsingborg, Sweden
From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.
Texas City, Texas
This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."
Rochester, New York
Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Giessen, Germany
This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.