Syracuse, New York
Tree of 40 Fruit
A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.
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Syracuse, New York
A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.
Vidalia, Georgia
A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."
Alto, Georgia
Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Hartfield, England
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
Great Missenden, England
This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).
London, England
The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
London, England
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
London, England
The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.
London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.
England
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Montevallo, Alabama
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
Leuven, Belgium
A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Brussels, Belgium
Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.
Brussels, Belgium
When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.
Brussels, Belgium
Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.
Brussels, Belgium
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
Ypres, Belgium
In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.
Leiden, Netherlands
A former plague hospital turned medical museum.