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45.6520, 13.7719
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22.4488, 114.0062
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53.8110, -1.7222
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New York, New York
Obscura Antiques and Oddities
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
40.7296, -73.9811
Vienna, Austria
Kriminalmuseum
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
48.2182, 16.3784
Vienna, Austria
The Narrenturm
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
48.2185, 16.3534
Vienna, Austria
Stephansdom Crypt
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
48.2080, 16.3729
Vienna, Austria
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library)
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
48.2060, 16.3673
San Francisco, California
Albion Castle
A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.
37.7315, -122.3756
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
37.8267, -122.4230
San Francisco, California
Labyrinth at Land’s End
A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.
37.7881, -122.5058
Budapest, Hungary
Terror Háza
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
47.5068, 19.0653
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest Cave Church
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.
47.4848, 19.0521
Budapest, Hungary
Szabo Ervin Library
A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.
47.4894, 19.0645
New Orleans, Louisiana
Marie Laveau's Tomb
The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.
29.9591, -90.0714
New Orleans, Louisiana
Faulkner House Books
Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.
29.9580, -90.0642
New Orleans, Louisiana
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Boarding House
A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.
29.9288, -90.0864
New Orleans, Louisiana
M.S. Rau Antiques
A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques
29.9577, -90.0648
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Cats of Jackson Square
By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.
29.9567, -90.0628
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Conti Wax Museum
An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.
29.9574, -90.0689
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.
29.9559, -90.0651
New Orleans, Louisiana
Napoleon House
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.
29.9558, -90.0653
New Orleans, Louisiana
'Birthplace of Dixie' Plaque
The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.
29.9538, -90.0681
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Sazerac Bar
This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.
29.9539, -90.0717
New Orleans, Louisiana
United Fruit Company Building
The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.
29.9510, -90.0706
New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana’s Civil War Museum at Confederate Memorial Hall
The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.
29.9432, -90.0712
New Orleans, Louisiana
Museum of the American Cocktail
If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?
29.9409, -90.0791
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