Bellevue Hospital in New York, New York
For the inhabitants of New York City in the gaslight era, there was one name that was guaranteed to chill the heart: Bellevue.Whilst places like Five Points, Murderer's Row, and the Mulberry Bend were...
View ArticleTalliston House & Gardens in Dunmow, United Kingdom
Once an ordinary house in an ordinary street, Talliston has been transformed into a wonderland of unique and inspirational locations.Behind an arched oak door set in a thicket hedge lies Talliston...
View ArticleFairy Post Office in Orinda, California
Tucked away in woodland hollow on a path in Orinda's Tilden Park is an itty-bitty postal station that looks like it was built by a fairy bureaucrat, and which regularly receives letters from hikers and...
View ArticleMount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire
One of the most climbed mountains in the world, Mount Monadnock sees many hikers on its peak, but thats about all that's left up there after early settlers burnt the peak barren a couple of...
View ArticleVale da Lua in Goiás, Brazil
Located just near the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park in Goiás, Brazil the otherworldly rock formation known as the Vale da Lua is a mesmerizing landscape of undulating pits and hollows that look...
View ArticleMuseum of a Million and One Roots in Cornimont, France
Twisting around the floor, walls, and ceilings of the Museum of a Million and One Roots in Cornimont, France are fanciful creatures of all shape and kind, seemingly organic clocks and lamps, and...
View ArticleSchloss Hellbrunn in Salzburg, Austria
Schloss Hellbrunn was the summer playhouse of Markus Sittikus, the archbishop of Salzburg, built in 1619. The palace was only for the daytime; there are no bedrooms in the home. It was simply an...
View ArticleThe Old Headquarters of Murder, Inc. in Brooklyn, New York
On the corner of Saratoga and Livonia Avenues in Brownsville, Brooklyn, there used to be a 24 hour candy store. During the 1930s and 40s, the Midnight Rose Candy Store, located under the elevated...
View ArticleWitley Wonder Underwater Ballroom in Surrey, England
Called an "Underwater Ballroom," in reality it was a subterranean smoking room built beneath a roof aquarium. Either way, it was spectacular, and like everything else on Whitaker Wright's Lea Park...
View ArticleTengfeng Fish Ball Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan
While they are not a staple of American diets, fish balls are a common snack across China, and one manufacturer of the food has opened a museum devoted singularly to educating visitors about the...
View ArticleEagle-Shawmut Mine in Lake Don Pedro, California
California's Lake Don Pedro is a jagged reservoir smack dab in the middle of California, and while the desolate wilderness area surrounding it has a number of recreational activities, the true draw to...
View ArticleNiagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York
Located miles upstate from such Manhattan architectural landmarks as the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center, the former power company headquarters known as the Niagara Mohawk Building makes all...
View ArticleRobert the Doll in Key West, Florida
Robert Eugene Otto -- or Gene, as his family called him -- was just a young boy in the early 1900s when his family's maid gave him a strange, straw-filled doll to play with. Gene loved his life-sized...
View ArticleForney Transportation Museum in Denver, Colorado
Growing from a private car collection to the eclectic vehicle collection that exists today, the Forney Transportation Museum in Denver, Colorado contains such oddities as Amelia Earhart's car, a bashed...
View ArticleSouth Pole Ice Tunnels in Antarctica
Deep below one of the world’s most remote outposts, a network of tunnels cut into the ice has come to house “shrines” dedicated to both the odd, and the profound.Founded as a small research base at the...
View ArticleHammetschwand Elevator in Bürgenstock, Switzerland
Straddling the exposed rock face of Switzerland's Mt. Bürgenstock is the towering Hammetschwand Elevator, the tallest outdoor lift in Europe, which shoots passengers from an underground boarding...
View ArticleMoccasin Bar in Hayward, Wisconsin
You never know who you'll run into after downing a few pints in a strange dive bar, but Wisconsin's Moccasin Bar might be the only watering hole where you can run into yodeling chipmunks and boxing...
View ArticleChopin's Heart in Warsaw, Poland
During his final days, famed Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, with fawning Parisian women fainting all around him, he made the gruesome request that his heart be taken from his corpse and sent back to...
View ArticleBarthman's Sidewalk Clock in New York , New York
At the dawning of the 20th century it didn't take as much effort to garner the attention of the buying public as it does today, but the core principle remains the same: novelty. The titular owner of...
View ArticleThe Unfinished Church in St. George, Bermuda
While Bermuda's Unfinished Church looks as though it was built in medieval times and left to fall apart and rot, it is actually a fairly recent construction that was just never able to be completed due...
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