Southend-on-Sea, England
Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet
A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.
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Southend-on-Sea, England
A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.
Boise, Idaho
The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.
Green River, Wyoming
This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.
Afton, Wyoming
This town is home to the world’s largest arch constructed entirely of elk antlers.
Lima, Peru
Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.
Shoshone, Idaho
Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.
Yermo, California
A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
Bisbee, Arizona
A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Eden, Utah
This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.
Cortenova, Italy
The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Ceballos, Mexico
A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.
Germantown, Maryland
One of only two sites in the United States containing the remains of Buddha.
Talasea, Papua New Guinea
Two World War II aircraft lie within the jungle around this abandoned runway.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam's narrowest house facade is a monument to 17th-century tax evasion.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands
A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.