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Joseph Allen Skinner Museum in South Hadley, Massachusetts
Established in the 1932 by silk magnate and philanthropist Joseph Allen Skinner, the museum that now carries his name displays the wide-ranging collection of curios that the man was able to accumulate...
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Lubaantun Archeological Reserve in Jacinto Ville, Belize
The Mayan ruin of Lubaantun has had an unfortunate "recent" history.Discovered and written about in 1903, it was revisited in 1917 by a Thomas Gann who haphazardly used dynamite in his search for...
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Kentuck Knob in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
What does one do when Frank Lloyd Wright builds one of the most famous houses in the world for your friends? Ask him for one, of course.Only seven miles away from Fallingwater, Kentuck Knob was built...
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Museum of Contraception and Abortion in Vienna, Austria
Despite the daunting challenge of collecting information and artifacts surrounding one of the most unspoken parts of our culture, Vienna's Museum of Contraception and Abortion has managed to gather an...
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Lewes Bonfire in Lewes, England
Each November 5th (or 4th if the 5th is a Sunday), the small town of Lewes in East Sussex sees the arrival of the Lewes Bonfire, the craziest celebration of Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot in all of...
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Nibelungenhalle in Königswinter, Germany
Richard Wagner's fantastic opera cycle Der Ring Des Nibelungen is the inspiration for a great deal of the fantasy genre, and it also inspired Germany's Nibelungenhalle, a stone temple decorated with...
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Shanklin Chine in Shanklin, Isle of Wight
Created by the stream waters slowly carving out its depths, the natural beauty and secluded wilds of England's Shanklin Chine have been used for everything from smuggling to military training to...
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Emile Berliner Museum of Sound in Montreal, Canada
The Emile Berliner Museum of Sound is a cluttered collection of televisions, phonographs, and other artifacts that honor the history of produced sound held in a factory that used to produce the very...
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The Grand Kugel in Richmond, Virginia
Young or old, weak or strong, the massive granite sphere known as the Grand Kugel (the largest construction of its kind in the world) can be spun or stopped with almost no effort thanks to a neat...
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Kakum Canopy Walk in Assin South, Ghana
Unique on the African continent, the Kakum Canopy Walk allows hikers to experience a portion of the jungle usually reserved for climbers and fliers thanks to a trail of precariously hung suspension...
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wrexham, United Kingdom
Considered one of the more impressive feats of British civil engineering in the 19th century, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct not only managed to span an impressive distance over a deep depression, but it...
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Funny Sex in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Taiwan restaurant Funny Sex mixes traditional dining and a middle-schooler's fascination with boobies to create an experience filled with mouth-watering dishes and inflatable penises.Despite the...
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Quabbin Reservoir in Belchertown, Massachusetts
As the city of Boston grew in the early 1800's they quickly ran into an increasing water shortage, so plans were put in place to flood the valley that would become the Quabbin Reservoir. The only...
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Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Nevada
As one of the only collections dedicated to the seductive art of risqué dancing in the entire world, the Burlesque Hall of Fame may be the only museum that prefers visitors that are over 18. After...
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Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities in Chicago, Illinois
Looking for loose teeth, used hearing aids, odd taxidermy, lice powder or other bizarre ephemera? Then look no further than Chicago's Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities, a crammed curiosity...
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Alamogordo Landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico
While there is some speculation as to whether the story is true, the Alamogordo Landfill is said to hold millions of unopened copies of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial the Video Game which an embarrassed...
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Hamish McHamish Statue in St. Andrews, Scotland
Every town has its stray cats, but none love theirs so much as the small Scottish town of St. Andrews which has installed a permanent bronze statue to honor Hamish McHamish, the town's unofficial...
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Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton, New York
Along with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is the only other large particle accelerator in the world, and what is lacks...
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Homeless Jesus in Davidson, North Carolina
Installed outside of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in wealthy Davidson, North Carolina, the statue known as Homeless Jesus is a powerful message about Christ's humble life, but some feel that it makes...
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Black Christ of Portobelo in Portobelo, Panama
The legendary depiction of Jesus Christ known as the Black Christ of Portobelo mixes issues of race and religion together with a mythic origin story to create one of the world's most singular Christian...
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