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Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop
Dave's Down to Earth Rock ShopShop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basementA long time Evanston, Illinois, institution, Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop is a ground-level store that...
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Museum of Osteology and Skulls Unlimited
Museum of Osteology and Skulls UnlimitedCollection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens" When Jay Villemarette’s job as an auto mechanic ended, he turned his...
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Kori no Suizokukan
Kori no Suizokukan450 frozen dead fish on display in JapanIn a lot of ways, Kori no Suizokukan resembles an average farmer's market. Locally caught fish of 80 different species are presented on ice for...
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Flutter
Flutter Delightful disarray of found objects and clutterNobody, it seems, can resist the charms of this Portland boutique, stuffed with curiosities and found objects. If you're shopping for gifts, you...
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The Junk Castle
The Junk CastleA home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, WashingtonFor a lot of artists, the 60s was a time of experimentation and deviation from the norm....
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House of Francisco González
House of Francisco GonzálezA Spanish artist builds his own castlePeople spend their whole life looking for whatever it is that makes a perfect home. For some, it's as simple as a walk-in closet or...
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Tuckaleechee Caverns
Tuckaleechee CavernsMile-long cave system near Great Smoky MountainsA mile-long cave system near Townsend, Tennessee, the Tuckaleechee Caverns reach depths of up to 150 feet, drawing in spelunkers from...
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The Devil's Sinkhole
The Devil's SinkholeA sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, home to the ancient dead“The name, Devil’s Sinkhole, aptly connotes the dark depths and other-worldliness of a vast vertical chasm in the limestone...
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Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels
Dr. Ted's Musical MarvelsColorful collection of antique musical odditiesTed Waflart only opens his large, eclectic collection of antique acoustic and mechanical musical instruments to groups of fifteen...
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Ksar Ouled Soltane
Ksar Ouled Soltane15th century granary, or futuristic slave quarters in TataouineAtop a gentle, dry and sandy hill is the oval fortification of Ksar Ouled Soltane. Rounded, protected structures built...
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Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology
Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and TechnologyMuseum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifactsIf you just visit the museum's website it would seem as though the...
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Tower of Eben-Ezer
Tower of Eben-EzerA Belgian self-built tower inspired by the bible and ancient civilizationsThe Tower of Eben-Ezer is a self-built castle constructed in the 1960s by a single man in the isolated Jeker...
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Aleister Crowley's Thelema Abbey
Aleister Crowley's Thelema AbbeyWhere Aleister Crowley taught magik in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars" his "Chamber of Nightmares." In 1919 , Aleister Crowley - a mystic and occultist known as "The Great...
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Skara Brae
Skara BraeAmazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.Skara Brae is the ruins of a Neolithic settlement (3100-2500 BC), located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of...
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Miami Circle
Miami CircleA perfect circle of twenty-four mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric timeProperty developer Michael Bauman was in for a real surprise when he purchased a plot of land in downtown...
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The Stonework of Machu Picchu
The Stonework of Machu PicchuThe intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineersCusco, at 11,000 feet the mountain weather is kaleidoscopic, and the Inca tradition is...
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The Great Pyramid of Cholula
The Great Pyramid of CholulaAn Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on topThanks to the brush and grasses that had overgrown its...
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Uplistsikhe Cave Town
Uplistsikhe Cave TownAncient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian historyLocated in Eastern Georgia, Uplistsikhe (literally “Lord’s Fortress“) is an abandoned rock-hewn town, which once...
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Stupa of Takht-e Rostam
Stupa of Takht-e RostamHighly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monasteryThere are places in the world so strongly devoted to a particular religion that it is incredibly hard to believe that...
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Domus de Janas
Domus de JanasAncient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies"Built by the ancient Ozieri culture between 3400 and 2700 BC, the Domus de Janas tombs on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia were the...
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