Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana
At the Studebaker National Museum, visitors can marvel at the stylish automobiles of another era that made South Bend, Indiana famous including such famed automobiles as Fozzie the Bear's car from The...
View ArticleGainford Spa in Gainford, United Kingdom
Gainford Spa is a little known mineral spring in the small village of Gainford on the River Wear that once promised to bring the town wealth and notoriety by cashing in on the Victorian mineral waters...
View ArticleSkovsnogen Artspace in Kibæk, Denmark
Nestled in the cozy natural climes of a Danish forest, the outdoor art gallery known as Skovsnogen is a dreamy collection of permanent and semi-permanent installations that lead visitors on a surreal...
View ArticleTintic Standard Reduction Mill in Goshen, Utah
Miles south of the Utah state capitol city of Salt Lake City on the outskirts of the small town of Goshen lie the remains of the Tintic Standard Reduction Mill, a nearly century old ore refinery that...
View ArticleEast Race Waterway in South Bend, Indiana
Despite the vocal objections of a number of taxpayers, the Civil War-era East Race Waterway was resurrected after being filled and is now a commercial and competitive white water river course that runs...
View ArticleMad Max 2 Museum in Silverton , Australia
After one man's obsession with the Road Warrior films led him to move to the Australian setting he had so long fantasized about, he went one step further and established the Mad Max 2 Museum, a...
View ArticleMumtaz Begum in Karachi , Pakistan
Resting in a tatty pavilion known as the Mumtaz Mahal (Mumtaz Palace) is a creature by the name of Mumtaz Begum, a lounging fox with the head of a woman who can see the future and provide solid advice....
View ArticleTower of the Sun in Suita, Japan
During Japan's Expo '70 the otherworldly Tower of the Sun jutted out of the top of the giant tent surrounding it, and now, after decades of neglect, the multi-faceted, wide-winged art building has been...
View ArticleBusta Rhymes Island in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
There is a small piece of land sticking out of a Shrewsbury, Massachusetts pond that doesn't seem to belong to anyone in particular, but, as 99% Invisible has reported, one local man is crusading to...
View ArticleTrack 61 in New York, New York
Unlike other "abandoned" train stations along the New York City subway system, the infamous Track 61 is supposedly still in use as a secret escape train for presidents visiting the city. Built along...
View ArticleThe Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rising three-stories above the central study area on each wall, the book collection contained in the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading has created one of the most stunning examples of "library porn"...
View ArticleSuperconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas
Everything is bigger in Texas, and that doesn't exclude multi-billion dollar super colliders — or failure.Both are on full display at the simply-named Superconducting Super Collider, a massive particle...
View ArticleJumbo Kingdom in Aberdeen, Hong Kong
A small trend of floating restaurants has built up in Hong Kong's Aberdeen Harbor over the years, but none is so large or iconic as the bustling Chinese wonderland, Jumbo Kingdom.One of the largest...
View ArticleLa Resurrezione in Vatican City , Italy
Looming over the main stage of the Paul VI Audience Hall in Vatican City, La Resurrezione depicts a thoroughly modern resurrection scene that dwarfs the sitting Pope as he receives his general...
View ArticleThe Arctic Henge in Raufarhöfn, Iceland
Located in one of Iceland's most remote northern villages, the Arctic Henge is a colossal piece of stone construction that, when finished, will make Stonehenge look like amateur hour. Started in 1996,...
View ArticleThe Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft in Hólmavík, Iceland
While witches are traditionally thought of as female, those accused of witchcraft in Iceland were traditionally male, but during a superstitious time in the country's past, they were executed just the...
View ArticleUnicorn Cave in Harz, Germany
The largest cave in Germany's Harz Mountains, known as Unicorn Cave was discovered in medieval times when the thinking was that the large deposits of strange bones could only belong the mythical horned...
View ArticleThe Toothache Tree in Kathmandu, Nepal
The gnarled hunk of wood known as Vaisha Dev, or the Toothache Tree, sits at an unassuming chowk (intersection) just past Thahiti Tole, but visitors could be forgiven for not realizing that it is a...
View ArticleBrooklyn's Forgotten Gage & Tollner Restaurant in Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's downtown Fulton Street Mall is not in the best of shape. New York's first pedestrian mall has gradually been allowed to fall into disrepair and nowhere is the area's gradual decline more...
View ArticleOspedale Psichiatrico di Volterra in Volterra, Italy
Looking like something straight out of a horror movie, Italy's Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra is the crumbling husk of a mental institution that was closed due to cruel treatment of its patients....
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