Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Black Cat Alley
A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.
Oak Brook, Illinois
Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.
Chicago, Illinois
Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.
Forrest, Illinois
Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.
Acharnes, Greece
After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.
Chigasaki, Japan
An old woman cured cholera in the 1820s and now her grave is said to be the city’s most cursed object.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The neighborhood surrounding the memorial was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in Louisiana.
London, England
The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.
Clinton, Tennessee
A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Trenton, Tennessee
The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.
Vonore, Tennessee
This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.
Manchester, Tennessee
This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.
Sevierville, Tennessee
While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
The home of 1.5 million wood letters for printing is still a functioning workshop.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!
Sumpter, Wisconsin
"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.