Austin, Texas
Museum of the Weird
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
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Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Austin, Texas
A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.
Austin, Texas
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.
Austin, Texas
Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
Little America, Wyoming
Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.
Winchester, Virginia
Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Tacoma, Washington
A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.
Ravenna, Italy
The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.
Seattle, Washington
The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
Vancouver, British Columbia
A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.
Leeds, England
The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.
Oregon City, Oregon
The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Seattle, Washington
Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.