Prague, Czechia
Old Jewish Cemetery
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
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Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Rome, Italy
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
New York, New York
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Brooklyn, New York
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
New York, New York
The "Seinfeld" diner.
New York, New York
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.
New York, New York
This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.