Categories

Devil's Swimming Pool, Jellyfish Lake, Sami, Jindo-Modo Landbridge, Jason de Caires Taylor's Underwater Sculpture Garden, Mosquito bay, The Firefly Squid of Toyama Bay, The Milky Seas, The Glowing Clams of Great Britain, The Spotted Lake (Kliluk), Devil's Kettle, Floating Bridge of Brookfield, VT, Colossal Squid at the Te Papa Museum, Loughareema, Caño Cristales, Siwa Oasis, Mount Trashmore, Pamukkale Water Terraces, Bagby Hot Springs, Blood Falls, Lake Vostok, *Gazi Husrev-Begova dzamija [AB], The Berkeley Pit, Monticello Dam Morning Glory Spillway, Schloss Hellbrunn, Blue Cave of Bisevo, The Aral Sea, Gates Co-op Houseboat Community, Beachy Head, Saltstraumen Maelstrom, Morning Glory Pool, Balikli Gol, La Lobera, Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids, Man & Woman Lakes, Undersea Brine Lake, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Great Isaac Cay , Slab City California, Great Blue Hole, The Meadowlands, The Tuben or "Elk Showers", Plitvice Lakes, Lichtenhain Waterfall, Dry Tortugas, Standing wave at Habitat '67, Montreal, The Queen Chateau Soapland, Nigardsbreen Ice Cave, Landsford Canal State Park, Tremble Island, Art Shanties at Medicine Lake, Salton Sea, The River Fleet, 'Eye of God' rapid, Chattooga River, Dead River

Museums and Collections

Wonder Cabinets

Evolution Nature Store, Steve's Weird House, Zymoglyphic Museum, Naturhistorisches Museum, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Naturhistorisches Museum, Bologna Zoological Museum, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History, Agricultural Museum of Cairo, The Garret, Battle Hill Museum of Natural History, Elsewhere Collaborative, Mølen, Wagner Free Institute, Teylers Museum, Sougenji Kappa-Dera Temple, Museum Boerhaave, 24 Hour Church of Elvis, Whitby Museum, Library & Archive, Vancouver Police Centennial Museum, Strahov Monastery , Dom Museum's Kunst und Wunderkammer, Kremsmunster Observatory, Restauri Artistici Squatriti - Ospedale delle Bambole, Radio Guy Collection, The Museum of the Weird, Woodman Institute Museum, Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology, The Museum of Witchcraft - Boscastle, Cornwall, Bournemouth Natural Science Society

Strange Science

Moniac Machine, Museé Fragonard, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, International UFO Museum and Research Center, Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock, Agricultural Museum of Cairo, H.A.A.R.P., City Museum, CERN, Spook Hill, externsteine, The Gurdon Light, The Wilhelm Reich Museum, Alchemy Museum / Muzeum Alchymie, Museum Boerhaave, Lake Vostok, Niagara Science Museum, Kon-Tiki Museum, Hessdalen AMS, Forestiere Underground Gardens, Monticello Dam Morning Glory Spillway, Larry Spring School of Common Sense Physics, Tacoma Narrows Bridge , Paraclete XP Skyventure, Alinea Restaurant, The Integratron, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Kola Superdeep Borehole, Lowell Observatory, National Ignition Facility, Pantex Plant, Large Binocular Telescope, Kremsmunster Observatory, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Mormon Genealogical Archives, ExplOratorium, Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford Museum, Wooden Books of Padova University, Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, Mozart's Skull: University Mozarteum, Woolsthorpe Manor, Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds, Radio Guy Collection, International Cryptozoology Museum, The Museum of the Weird, Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Reed College Research Reactor, Creation and Earth History Museum, Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology, A-bomb Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan, James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, Bigfoot Discovery Museum

Pharmacy Museums

History of Pharmacy Museum, Melbourne Medical Museum, Old Operating Theatre, Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy, The Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum, The Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum, Museum Boerhaave, Meguro Parasitological Museum, Whitby Museum, Library & Archive, Pharmacy Museum of Sibiu, Lepramuseet: Leprosy Museum of St. Georges Hospital, New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Bozhou Medicinal Herb Market, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Outsider Art

The American Visionary Art Museum, Arthur Ganson at MIT Museum, Cano's Castle, Nek Chand Sani, Salvation Mountain, Owl House , The Wave Organ, Franz Gsellmann's Weltmaschine, Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park, Zymoglyphic Museum, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Ružica Church, Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, Carhenge, Temple of Damanhur, The Corn Palace, City Museum, Midlothian Castle, Mary Nohl House, Warther Museum, Blythe Intaglios, Cayuga Park, Gopher Hole Museum, Museum of Bad Art, Collection de l'Art Brut, Another Place, Nimis, Vigeland Sculpture Park, Gum Wall, Cadillac Ranch, Griffis Sculpture Park, World's Largest Ball of Twine Rolled by One Man, Defenestration, Abita Mystery House, World Reclamation Art Project, The Abode of Chaos, Velveteria: The Velvet Painting Museum, The Lightning Field, Walter De Maria's Vertical Earth Kilometer, Broken Kilometer, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Albany Bulb, Dream House, The Merry Cemetery, Secret Swing, The Museum of Holography, Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum, House of Balls, Rainbow Swash, Royston Cave , Ozymandias on the Plains, Slab City California, Traffic Light Tree, the New Orleans Treehouse, Mount Loretto Beach Rock Garden, The Museum of Everything, Balmy Alley Murals, Mummers Museum, Institute of Illegal Images, William Ricketts Sanctuary, Art Shanties at Medicine Lake, Museum of Neon Art, Heidelberg Project, The Museum of the Weird, 3D Center of Art and Photography, Amargosa Opera House, Pasaquan: Home of St. EOM, Floating Mesa

Natural History

Anniston Museum of Natural History, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, American International Rattlesnake Museum, Museum of Ancient Life, Naturhistorisches Museum, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Bologna Zoological Museum, Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History, Frost Entomological Museum, Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock, Zoological Museum, Blythe Intaglios, The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum, Battle Hill Museum of Natural History, Sweden Solar System, Kunstkamera, Lark Quarry, Nantes' Natural History Museum, Wagner Free Institute, Teylers Museum, Tuinen van Adegem, Meguro Parasitological Museum, Fram Museum, Whitby Museum, Library & Archive, Biologiska Museet, Cabazon Dinosaurs, Sea Turtle Hatchery, Eccles Dinosaur Park, Kremsmunster Observatory, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Svalbard Seed Bank, Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Wooden Books of Padova University, Foraminifera Sculpture Park, International Cryptozoology Museum, Down House, Woodman Institute Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum

Medical Museums

Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences, C. und O. Vogt Institue of Brain Research Collection, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dittrick Medical Museum, Eastern State Hospital, Eichold-Heustis Medical Museum , Hunterian Museum, London, Indiana Medical History Museum, International Museum of Surgical Science, Josephinum Medical Museum, La Specola, Le Musee des Moulages, Melbourne Medical Museum, Moulagenmuseum, Musee Dupuytren, Museé Fragonard, Musees d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouviere, Museo Anatómico de la University de Valladolid, Museo Anatomico, University of Siena, Bologna's Instituti di Anatomia Umana Normale, Museum of Human Anatomy, Pisa, Macaulay Museum of Dental History, Museum of Health and Medical Science, Museum of Human Disease, Museum of Menstruation, Museum of Vision, Mütter Museum, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, National Museum of Dentistry, Old Operating Theatre, Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, Still National Osteopathic Museum, The Narrenturm, The Pest House Medical Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh, The Southern California Medical Museum, Warren Anatomical Museum, Cagliari's Wax Anatomy Museum, Wilder Brain Collection, Wood Library and Museum of Anesthesiology, Icelandic Phallological Museum, Semmelweis Medical Museum , The Basin of Abandonment at the Hospice of the Innocent, National Museum of Health and Medicine, America's Oldest Operating Theater, Agricultural Museum of Cairo, Siriraj Medical Museum, Medizinhistorisches Museum, Kunstkamera, The Dental Museum and Mummy of Racibórz , Gordon Museum, The Ether Dome, The Wilhelm Reich Museum, Dr. Guislain Museum, Museum Boerhaave, Meguro Parasitological Museum, Lepramuseet: Leprosy Museum of St. Georges Hospital, The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Musée de la Médecine, Glore Psychiatric Museum, Ospedale degli Innocenti : Hospice of the Innocent, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds, Radio Guy Collection, Historical Dental Museum, Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

Unique Collections

Arthur Ganson at MIT Museum, Bakken Museum of Electro-Magnetism, Belhaven Memorial Museum, Berman Museum of World History, Clock Museum, House on the Rock, Musée de la Contrefaçon, Musee de la Magie, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Musee Mecanique , Bologna's Instituti di Anatomia Umana Normale, Museum of Menstruation, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum , Sir John Soane's Museum, Steve's Weird House, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Zymoglyphic Museum, Butantã Snake Institute, John Hutchings Museum of Natural History, Johnson Museum of the Odd, The Nose Academy, Icelandic Phallological Museum, Frog Museum, Leila's Hair Museum, Barometer World & Museum, Mundaneum, Nicolaï Syadristy’s Micro Miniature Museum, Esperanto Museum, Globe Museum, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, University of Arizona Mathematical Models Collection, Museum Vrolik, The Frame Collector's Museum, Elektotechnikai Múzeum, György Ràth Museum, The Hash, Marijuana and Hemp Museum, The Torture Museum, Circus World Museum, The Salt Palace, Bijbels Museum, Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History, Musée Bricard, Musée des Plans-Reliefs, Paris Sewer Museum, Museum of Funeral Customs, International UFO Museum and Research Center, Stichting Nationaal Brilmuseum, The Kansas Underground Salt Museum, Lunch Box Museum, Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society and Museum, Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, Boston Athenaeum, Agricultural Museum of Cairo, City Museum, Warther Museum, Museum of Broadcasting, museum of brands, Julien Aurouze and Co., Buchstabenmuseum / Museum of Letters, Characters and Typefaces, Root Beer Saloon, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Humboldt Museum, National Museum of Funeral History, The Garret, Marsh's Free Museum, The Thing, Awashima Jinja , Gopher Hole Museum, Steamboat Arabia Museum, Casa Rocca Piccola, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Colossal Squid at the Te Papa Museum, Old Havana Perfume Museum, China Nantong Abacus Museum, Elsewhere Collaborative, Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre, The Dental Museum and Mummy of Racibórz , The Witch House of Salem, Bottle-ship Museum, Denis Severs' House, Memento Park, Graceland Too, Titan Missile Museum, Vent Haven Museum, The Lightship Frying Pan, The Petroleum Museum, Museum Boerhaave, Meguro Parasitological Museum, Niagara Science Museum, 24 Hour Church of Elvis, The Vacuum Cleaner Museum, Mustard Museum, Velveteria: The Velvet Painting Museum, Fram Museum, Whitby Museum, Library & Archive, Dougherty Museum, Maison d'Ailleurs, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, Morris Museum, Nethercutt Collection and Museum, Natural Bridge of Virginia, Musical Wonder House, Vancouver Police Centennial Museum, International Rock-A-Billy Hall of Fame, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, International Boxing Hall of Fame, The Museum of Holography, Urban Ore, Chemical Heritage Foundation, The Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art, Musée de la Médecine, The Renaissance Society, Pritzker Military Library, Otzi the Iceman, International Banana Club Museum, The Troll Museum, The Wolf House - Jack London State Park, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Svalbard Seed Bank, RMS Titanic Memorial, Mormon Genealogical Archives, European Asparagus Museum, Pianola Museum, Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford Museum, Gabinetto Segreto , Presidents Hall of Fame, Mummers Museum, Institute of Illegal Images, Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, Mozart's Skull: University Mozarteum, Neon Boneyard, Grave Digger's Dungeon, The Edward Gorey House, Velaslavasay Panorama, Schönheitengalarie (gallery of Beauties), Singapore Philatelic Museum, Counterfeit Goods Museum, Museum of Neon Art, Philosophical Research Society, Pacific Pinball Museum, Cowgirl Hall of Fame, Hollywood Heritage Museum, Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds, New York Transit Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechancial Music, Higgins Armory Museum, American Computer Museum, Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia, Radio Guy Collection, International Cryptozoology Museum, The Museum of the Weird, Pirate Soul Museum, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Old Courthouse Museum, Museum of African American Firefighters, The Criminology Museum, Kidd's Toy Museum, 3D Center of Art and Photography, Gates of Hell Sculpture, Down House, Antikythera Mechanism, Burcardo Theater Museum, Bata Shoe Museum, British Lawnmower Museum, Brioni, Woodman Institute Museum, Computer History Museum, Kristiansand Kanonmuseum, Tiffany Glass Mural "The Dream Garden", The Absinthe Museum, International Surfing Museum, Museum of Beauty, Herschel Museum of Astronomy , National Center for the History of Electronic Games, Plantin-Moretus Museum of Printing, Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology, National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History, World's Largest Warship, German Butcher's Museum, A-bomb Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan, James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, The Bunny Museum, Ramanujan Museum, The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarine Museum, Museum of floating debris, Bigfoot Discovery Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, Museum of American Finance, Bournemouth Natural Science Society

Hunting and Taxidermy

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Icelandic Phallological Museum, Grip the Raven, Zoological Museum, Julien Aurouze and Co., Root Beer Saloon, Get Stuffed, The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum, Gopher Hole Museum, Venice Beach Freakshow, Wagner Free Institute, Foster's Big Horn, Abita Mystery House, The "August von Spiess" Museum of Hunting, Budapest Agriculture Museum, Biologiska Museet, Buckhorn Exchange, Kremsmunster Observatory, Comanche, Survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, International Cryptozoology Museum, Bagley Wildlife Museum

Crime and Punishment

The Torture Museum, Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, Gold Coast Wax Museum and Chamber of Horrors, Patarei Sea Fortress-Prison, Lubyanka, Yuma Territorial Prison, Kriminalmuseum , Vancouver Police Centennial Museum, Haw Par Villa, Solovki, Counterfeit Goods Museum, Goli Otok, Pirate Soul Museum, The Criminology Museum

Unusual Monuments

Strange Statues

Statue of Vulcan, Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park, Costa Rican Stone Spheres, Jason de Caires Taylor's Underwater Sculpture Garden, Carhenge, Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon, The Child Eater of Bern, Mary Nohl House, The Mysterious Witch Bonney, Gilgal Sculpture Garden, Cayuga Park, Opus 40, City, The Cardiff Giant, Judaculla Rock, Victoria’s Way Indian Sculpture Park, Batu Caves, Memento Park, Vigeland Sculpture Park, Mølen, The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Lenin Statue of Fremont, The Monsters of Bomarzo, Minerva in the Green-Wood Cemetery, David Adickes SculptrWorx Studio, Giant GUNDAM robot, Floralis Generica, Posankka, Decebal's Head, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Zwerglgarten (Dwarf Garden), Porta Alchemica, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Statue of St. Wilgefortis, The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero, Hand of the Desert, Stonehenge II, Totem, Haw Par Villa, The Integratron, Haymarket Square, Cabazon Dinosaurs, The World's Largest Garden Gnome, Forbidden Gardens, Transi de René de Chalon, Fields of the Woods, The Worlds Largest Weathervane, a DC-3, Giant Buddha, Xieng Khuan: Buddha Park, Ozymandias on the Plains, Slab City California, Traffic Light Tree, Mount Loretto Beach Rock Garden, Fountain of the Fallen Angel, Jeff Koons' Puppy, Golden Summit Temple, Ushiku Daibutsu: The Great Buddha of Ushiku, Nihonji Daibutsu: The Great of Buddha of Nihonji, Showa Daibutsu: The Great Showa Buddha of Seiry?ji, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, Broad Street Cholera Pump, Stanley Park, International Cryptozoology Museum, John Lennon Statue, Gates of Hell Sculpture, The Protestants' graveyard, Boll Weevil Monument, The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove, Leaning Tower of Niles, Elvis Memorial, Il Gigante, The Giant Lenin head of Ulan Ude, Beverley Sanctuary Stones, Beverley Messenger Rabbit

Peculiar Fountains

Charybdis Fountain, Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Chocolate Waterfall, Monticello Dam Morning Glory Spillway, Schloss Hellbrunn, Balikli Gol, Tiffany Glass Mural "The Dream Garden"

Miniatures

Small Worlds and Model Towns

Mapparium, Peoria Scale Model of the Solar System, The Andorran model museum, Eartha, Minimundus, Mini-Paris, Sweden Solar System, Bekonscot Model Village, Atlanta White House, Mini Siam, Hartman's Rock Garden, Madurodam, Bibi Ka Maqbara, Mill Ends Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum, Forbidden Gardens, Martini Junction, The World Park, Khewra Salt Mines, Miniature Moscow, France Miniature Park, Ancient City, Mud Island River Park, Portugal dos Pequenitos, Mini-Europe

Microminiature art

Nicolaï Syadristy’s Micro Miniature Museum, Nutty Narrows Bridge, Museum of Miniatures, Presidents Hall of Fame, National Museum of Ship Models and Sea History, Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum

Memento Mori

Relics and Reliquaries

Relics in the Basilica of San Dominico, Galileo's Middle Finger, The Relic of St. Antoninus, St. Catherine's Head at the St. Dominic Basilica, Saint Catherine of Bologna, Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, Sokushinbutsu of Dainichi temple, Ivolginsky Datsan, Boston Athenaeum, The Holy Right, Dubrovnik Cathedral Treasury (Riznica Katedrale), Get Stuffed, Igreja de Vera Cruz de Marmelar, The Shrine of Saint John Neuman, The Holy Finger of Kansas City, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Lenin Statue of Fremont, Santa Maria della Concezione, *Child's Tomb at Old St. Michael the Archangel Church [AB], The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero, Body of St. Francis Xavier , Basilica of the Holy Blood, Transi de René de Chalon, Church of St. Ursula, The Sword in the Stone at Montesiepi Chapel, Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford Museum, Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, Mozart's Skull: University Mozarteum, The Incorruptible St. Zita, Buenos Aires Recoleta Cemetery, The Not-Quite Incorruptible St. Bernadette of Lourdes, Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum, Jeweled skeleton of Saint Munditia, patron saint of spinsters, Grūtas Park

Ossuaries

Capuchin Monastery, Catacombes de Paris, Sedlec Ossuary "Bone Church", Portugal's Chapel of Bones, San Bernardino alle Ossa, The Skull Tower of Niš, The Czech's Capuchin Crypt, Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato, Santa Maria della Concezione, Hallstatt Charnel House , St Leonards Church, Kaplica Czaszek: The Chapel of Skulls, Church of St. Ursula, Capela de Ossos Bone Chapel, M?lník Chapel of Bones, The Skeletons of Waldsassen Basillica, Brno Ossuary, Douaumont Ossuary, Trench of Bayonets, Fontanelle Cemetery Caves, Naval Underground Headquarters

Mummies

Saint Catherine of Bologna, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, The Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum, Sokushinbutsu of Dainichi temple, Ivolginsky Datsan, Capuchin Monastery, Salt Men of Iran, Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon, The Holy Right, The Mummy of Knight Kahlbutz, Vanderbilt Museum, The Garret, Marsh's Free Museum, Gopher Hole Museum, The Cardiff Giant, The Dental Museum and Mummy of Racibórz , The Czech's Capuchin Crypt, Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato, The Ether Dome, Lenin's Mausoleum, Santa Maria della Concezione, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, Preserved Mummies of the Hervormde Kerk, Grave of Elmer McCurdy, Mummies of Vác, Hungary, St. Michan's Church, Otzi the Iceman, The Sutro Egyptian Collection, The Incorruptible St. Zita, Collégiale de Saint-Bonnet-Le-Château

Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries

Stephansdom Crypt, Capuchin Monastery, Catacombes de Paris, Sedlec Ossuary "Bone Church", Portugal's Chapel of Bones, St. Sebastian’s Cemetery, Crypt of Civilization, San Bernardino alle Ossa, The Mummy of Knight Kahlbutz, The Mysterious Witch Bonney, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Boston's Old Burying Grounds, Newgrange, Minnehallen: The Hall of Rememberance, William MacKenzie's Tomb, The Dorn Pyramid, Mountain View Cemetery, The Cemetery of the Danvers Hospital for the Criminally Insane , Madingley American Cemetery, The Czech's Capuchin Crypt, Emperor Norton's Grave, Kilmorey Mausoleum, Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato, Isola di San Michele, Mølen, Sagada, Mystery Tomb, Grave of "Cannibal" Ed Gein, Marie Laveau's Tomb, Minerva in the Green-Wood Cemetery, The Shanghai Tunnels, Kalaupapa Leper Colony, Santa Maria della Concezione, Forestiere Underground Gardens, The Anatomical Machines of Cappella Sansevero, The Merry Cemetery, Hallstatt Charnel House , Highgate Cemetery, Comstock Cemeteries, Grave of Elmer McCurdy, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Kaplica Czaszek: The Chapel of Skulls, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, San Francisco Columbarium, Mummies of Vác, Hungary, Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs, M?lník Chapel of Bones, Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno, Brno Ossuary, St. Michan's Church, Veii, Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Fontanelle Cemetery Caves, The Protestants' graveyard, The Nazi Graveyard of Brazil, Doc Holliday's Grave, Collégiale de Saint-Bonnet-Le-Château, Greenwood Cemetery's Haunted Stairway, Pyramid of Cestius, Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum, Naval Underground Headquarters

Inspired Inventions

Astounding Timepieces

Prague Astronomical Clock , Clock Museum, Jantar Mantar, Queen's College Moondial, Genk Sundial Park, The Astronomical Clock of Besançon, Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1, Eartha, Eisinga Planetarium, Crypt of Civilization, The Calendar Sundial, Georgia Guidestones, Newgrange, Olomouc's Communist Clock, NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock, Union Square Metronome, Clocktower Gallery and Machinery Room, Mechanical Dragon Clock, Astronomical Clock in Kryštofov? Valley, Beverly Clock, Rathaus-Glockenspiel, Nima Sand Museum, Steam Clock Gastown Vancouver, Antikythera Mechanism, Elephant Clock, Longplayer

Musical Wonders

Aristides Demetrios Wind Harp, Sea Organ, The Great Stalacpipe Organ, The Wave Organ, Greatstone Sound Mirrors, The Sonorous Stones of Ringing Rocks Park, Harmonic Bridge, Bok Tower Gardens, Elsewhere Collaborative, Singing Sand Dunes of Liwa, Tipu's Tiger, Nethercutt Collection and Museum, Musical Wonder House, Dream House, Wanamaker Building, Civic Musical Road, BargeMusic, Pianola Museum, The Kingdom of Boomeria, Rathaus-Glockenspiel, The Singing Ringing Tree, Kilt Rock and Mealt Falls, Ringing Rocks of Montana, Longplayer, Herschel Museum of Astronomy

Instruments of Science

Mapparium, Moniac Machine, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Queen's College Moondial, Peoria Scale Model of the Solar System, Greatstone Sound Mirrors, Barometer World & Museum, Globe Museum, Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1, Periodic Table Display, Eartha, Colour Experience (Color Museum), Eisinga Planetarium, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Chappe Optical Telegraph, Electrum, H.A.A.R.P., Camp Hero, Electricity Pylons of Cadiz, Green Bank Telescope, Sweden Solar System, CERN, The Very Large Array, Titan Missile Museum, Teylers Museum, Roppongi Hills Garden Pond, The Pitch Drop Experiment, Museum Boerhaave, Biosphere 2, Niagara Science Museum, NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock, Pharmacy Museum of Sibiu, Paraclete XP Skyventure, The Integratron, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, AlloSphere, Kola Superdeep Borehole, Lowell Observatory, National Ignition Facility, Large Binocular Telescope, World's Largest Solar Furnace, Kremsmunster Observatory, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Svalbard Seed Bank, Einsteinturm, Mormon Genealogical Archives, Yucca Mountain Repository, Pianola Museum, Wooden Books of Padova University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, The Kingdom of Boomeria, Beverly Clock, Hven, Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, Mozart's Skull: University Mozarteum, Maria Mitchell Association, Vehicle Assembly Building, Jicamarca Ionospheric Radio Observatory, Oxford Electric Bell, McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, Holmdel Horn Antenna, Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Iron pillar of Delhi, American Computer Museum, Hale Solar Laboratory, Large Zenith Telescope, 3D Center of Art and Photography, Reed College Research Reactor, Historical Dental Museum, Antikythera Mechanism, Difference Engine #2, Yerkes Observatory, Computer History Museum, Leviathan of Parsonstown, Herschel Museum of Astronomy , Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, LIGO Livingston Observatory, Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

Electrical Oddities

Bakken Museum of Electro-Magnetism, Elektotechnikai Múzeum, Electrum, H.A.A.R.P., Centennial Bulb, Teylers Museum, Niagara Science Museum, The Vacuum Cleaner Museum, Huddersfield Narrow Canal Pylon, Paraclete XP Skyventure, Chemical Heritage Foundation, National Ignition Facility, Traffic Light Tree, World's Largest Solar Furnace, Schwebebahn Dresden, Electronics Flea Market, Oxford Electric Bell, Paynesville Omega Tower, American Computer Museum, Michael Faraday Memorial, Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

Marvelous Maps and Measures

Mapparium, Moniac Machine, Peoria Scale Model of the Solar System, Globe Museum, Eartha, H.A.A.R.P., Sweden Solar System, CERN, Lowell Observatory, 45th Parallel Marker

Retro-Tech

Jantar Mantar, The Astronomical Clock of Besançon, Lichtenhain Waterfall, Molli Steam Tram, Schwebebahn Dresden, Schwebebahn Wuppertal, Oberweissbacher Bergbahn, Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library, Dutch Windmills, Pianola Museum, Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford Museum, Wooden Books of Padova University, The Kingdom of Boomeria, Beverly Clock, Hven, Jicamarca Ionospheric Radio Observatory, Landsford Canal State Park, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, St. Augustine Airplane Graveyard, Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds, Holmdel Horn Antenna, Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Iron pillar of Delhi, Steam Clock Gastown Vancouver, American Computer Museum, 3D Center of Art and Photography, Antikythera Mechanism, Difference Engine #2, Yerkes Observatory, SS United States, Computer History Museum, Kristiansand Kanonmuseum, Leviathan of Parsonstown, Herschel Museum of Astronomy , National Center for the History of Electronic Games, Plantin-Moretus Museum of Printing, Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory, Wiltshire's Secret Underground City: The Burlington Nuclear Bunker, The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarine Museum, Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

Amazing Automata

Prague Astronomical Clock , Musee de la Magie, Musee Mecanique , Machines of the Isle of Nantes, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Titan Missile Museum, Olomouc's Communist Clock, Tipu's Tiger, Schloss Hellbrunn, Morris Museum, Nethercutt Collection and Museum, Musical Wonder House, House of Balls, Mechanical Dragon Clock, The Worlds Largest Weathervane, a DC-3, Pianola Museum, The Silver Swan, Zeum Carousel, France Miniature Park, Steam Clock Gastown Vancouver, Canard Digérateur de Vaucanson (Vaucanson's Digesting Duck), Kidd's Toy Museum, Elephant Clock

Intriguing Environs

Optical Oddities

Warsaw Fotoplastikon, Paulding Light, The Mill on Lake Erie, Shadow Pilgrim, Mitchell Park, Camera Obscura & Holograph, Sleeping Giant, The Gurdon Light, Marfa Lights, Hessdalen AMS, Monticello Dam Morning Glory Spillway, Dream House, The Ozark Spooklight, Jumping wall of Kildemock, Evolver, World's Largest Solar Furnace, Santa Maria presso San Satiro, The dome illusion, Velaslavasay Panorama, Kilt Rock and Mealt Falls, Large Zenith Telescope, 3D Center of Art and Photography, Floating Mesa, The uphill-downhill road of Ariccia

Micro-Nations

Republic of Kugelmugel, North Dumpling Island, Nimis, Meah Shearim, Spratly Islands, auroville, Principality of Hutt River, Holy Mount of Athos, The Kingdom of Boomeria, Krak des Chevaliers

Ghost Towns

Last Tree of Ténéré, Kolmanskop Ghost Town, Holy Land, U.S.A., Eastern State Penitentiary, Cactus Dome, Centralia, Bodie State Historical Park, Thistle Ghost Town, Tahawus, Gedi Ruins, The Bird Cage Theater, Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, Rhyolite ghost town, Gunkanjima Island, Dogtown & Babson Boulder Trail, The Lost Town of Dunwich, The Aral Sea, Lost Cove Settlement, Oradour, Old Zoo Picnic Area, Terlingua Ghost Town, Lajitas Ghost Town, Contrabando, San Juan Parangaricutiro, Scotty's Castle, Ghost City, Skarð, Marin Headlands Nike Missile Site, Batteries, and Bunkers, The Nitrate Towns of Chile, Robert the Doll, Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key, California City: The Unbuilt Suburb, Naval Underground Headquarters, A-bomb Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan, Polphail Village

Will-O-Wisps and Spooklights

Paulding Light, The Gurdon Light, Marfa Lights, Hessdalen AMS, The Ozark Spooklight

Mystery Spots and Gravity Hills

The Mill on Lake Erie, Magnetic Hill, Confusion Hill, Spook Hill, Mystery Spot, Oregon Vortex, Cosmos Mystery Area, America's Stonehenge (Mystery Hill), The Ozark Spooklight, Woodstock Mystery Hole, Devil's Stomping Ground, Davelis Cave on Pendeli Mountain, The uphill-downhill road of Ariccia

Hoaxes and Pseudoscience

externsteine, America's Stonehenge (Mystery Hill), Skunk Ape Research Headquarters, Royston Cave , Koreshan State Historic Site, Robert the Doll, Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds, Iron pillar of Delhi, Creation and Earth History Museum, Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

Disaster Areas

The Gates of Hell, Cactus Dome, Centralia, TNT Area, Thistle Ghost Town, Open Pit Asbestos Mine at Thetford Mines, The Dead Falls of Lake Ragunda, Chernobyl's Ghost Cities, The Sidoarjo Mud Volcano, Lucky Dragon and Atomic Tuna Memorial, Chittagong Ship-breaking Yards, The Berkeley Pit, Guiyu, The Aral Sea, Tacoma Narrows Bridge , North Yungas Road, Dead Horse Bay, Kawah Ijen, Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque, Nauru, Fly Ranch Geyser, Airtight Bridge, Douaumont Ossuary, Leadville's Abandoned Silver Mine, Slaughterhouse Five, Slab City California, The Meadowlands, Donora Smog Museum and Historical Society, Calistoga Petrified Forest, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, Broad Street Cholera Pump, Chicxulub Crater, Wiltshire's Secret Underground City: The Burlington Nuclear Bunker, Naval Underground Headquarters, A-bomb Memorial, Hiroshima, Japan, Fort Zverev

Cultures and Civilizations

Wondrous Performances

Mt. Hiei, Pentecost Island Land Dive, Cotswold Olimpicks, Shanghai Circus World, American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse, Angola Prison Rodeo, Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza, La Cathedrale d'Images, Canton Avenue, Ueno Zoo Escaped Animal Drill, Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids, Monte Kaolino, Underwater Music Festival, Circus Center, Gasparilla Pirate Festival, Burcardo Theater Museum, Yamaboko Festival in Kyoto

Rites and Rituals

The Funeral Rites of Torajaland, Mt. Hiei, Pentecost Island Land Dive, Sanjusangendo, Hanging Temple of Hengshan, The Whistling Island, The Basin of Abandonment at the Hospice of the Innocent, Cotswold Olimpicks, Bete Giyorgis of Lalibela, Wagah Flag Ceremony, Sokushinbutsu of Dainichi temple, Gobekli Tepe, Museum of Funeral Customs, The Spotted Lake (Kliluk), Blythe Intaglios, Museum of Man and Science, Igreja de Vera Cruz de Marmelar, Fiji Museum, Cargo Cults of Tanna, The Great Serpent Mound, Batu Caves, The Sacred Grove , Echo Valley, The Domes, Karni Mata Temple, The Root Bridges of Cherrapungee, Lily Dale Spiritualist Community, The Sourtoe Cocktail, Hindu Temple of Atlanta, L'Ardia di San Costantino Festival, Sedilo, Man & Woman Lakes, Haw Par Villa, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Masonic Temple of Philadelphia, Bylakuppe, Royston Cave , Fields of the Woods, Giant Swing, Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel, Gävle Goat, Bohemian Club , "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, Bighorn Medicine Wheel, pagan art, Beverley Sanctuary Stones, Yamaboko Festival in Kyoto

Lost Tribes

Troublesome Creek, Gobekli Tepe, Blythe Intaglios, Humboldt Museum, The Garret, Gedi Ruins, Ostrich People of Zimbabwe, Judaculla Rock, Cargo Cults of Tanna, Newgrange, externsteine, The Uros People of Lake Titicaca, Korowai Tree Houses, Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands, Skara Brae, Hotel Sidi Driss, Nazca lines, Peru, Plain of Jars, Koreshan State Historic Site, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, The Stonework of Machu Picchu, Miami Circle, The Nazi Graveyard of Brazil

Commercial Curiosities

Purveyors of Curiosities

Deyrolle Taxidermy, Evolution Nature Store, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, City Museum, The Paris Market, Julien Aurouze and Co., Billy's Antiques and Props, Root Beer Saloon, Get Stuffed, Museum of Man and Science, The Bone Room, Maxilla & Mandible, Necromance, East Bay Vivarium, American Science & Surplus, Uncommon Objects, Black Hole of Los Alamos, Wunderkammer, Paxton Gate, The Pirate Shop at 826 Valencia, First Natural Lanzart, Nautilus, The Garret, Marsh's Free Museum, Packrat Antiques, Gold Bug, 24 Hour Church of Elvis, The Toy Factory, The Sourtoe Cocktail, California Cactus Center, Minyatür’s Nautical Instruments, Galco's Soda Pop Stop, Bozhou Medicinal Herb Market, Urban Ore, Haw Par Villa, House of Balls, The Echo Park Time Travel Mart, Mukluk Land, Lucy Parsons Center, Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Merz Apothecary, American Science and Surplus, Electronics Flea Market, Calistoga Petrified Forest, Restauri Artistici Squatriti - Ospedale delle Bambole, Aria Antiques, Singapore Philatelic Museum, Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors, The Mall of America, Komboloi Museum (Greek Worry Bead Museum), Glow Golf Docklands Melbourne, Spam Museum

Odd Accommodations

Starkenberger Beer Resort, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Madonna Inn, Out & About Treehouse Treesort, Smith Tower Penthouse, Portmeirion Village, Eve's Garden B&B and Ecology Resource Center, Nutty Narrows Bridge, Coober Pedy, Island Jungle Resort at Chitwan National Park, Da Lat Crazy House, Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Healing Center, Institute of Mentalphysics, The Akasaka Love Hotel, Ware Hall House, Hotel Majestic, Fox Hotel in Copenhagen

Bizarre Restaurants and Bars

Dans le Noir?, minibar by Jose Andres, Root Beer Saloon, Lucha Libre Tacos, First Natural Lanzart, Berlin Radio Tower, Palace of wonders, Madonna Inn, Silky O'Sullivans , Japadog, Hot Doug's, Bump & Grind, Foster's Big Horn, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, Tajikistan tearoom, The Sourtoe Cocktail, Hotel Sidi Driss, Alinea Restaurant, The Wieners Circle, Hood Milk Bottle, Emperor's Garden Restaurant, Hospitalis Restaurant, Rimsky-Korsakoffee House, Owakudani Black Eggs, Buckhorn Exchange, Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel, Bourbon & Branch, Bohemian Club , Moss Beach Distillery, The Absinthe Museum, Fox Hotel in Copenhagen, World's Oldest Restaurant, The Clinic

Architectural Oddities

Long Now Locations

Curious Places of Worship

Ave Maria Grotto, Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral, Father Paul Dobberstein's Grotto of the Redemption, Tower of Eben-Ezer, Mt. Hiei, Pentecost Island Land Dive, Stephansdom Crypt, Cave Church, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Sumela Monastery, Garni Gorge, Bete Giyorgis of Lalibela, Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, Holy Land, U.S.A., Ivolginsky Datsan, Gobekli Tepe, Bochnia Salt Mine, Capuchin Monastery, Temple of Damanhur, Sedlec Ossuary "Bone Church", Gilgal Sculpture Garden, Igreja de Vera Cruz de Marmelar, Cayuga Park, Summum Pyramid, Awashima Jinja , Rosicrucian Pyramids of Bucks County, Mont Saint-Michel, Newgrange, The Czech's Capuchin Crypt, The Great Serpent Mound, Meteora, externsteine, Wat Rong Khun, Batu Caves, Basiliek Oudenbosch, catedral de sal de zipaquira, Jesus Tree of Malta, Graceland Too, The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Shakaden Reiyukai Temple, Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza, Alchemy Museum / Muzeum Alchymie, The Domes, Goddess Tuptim Shrine, The Ruins of St. Peter's Seminary, Karni Mata Temple, Kan'ei-ji Temple, Snake Pagoda of Myanmar, Templo de Debod, Santa Maria della Concezione, *Child's Tomb at Old St. Michael the Archangel Church [AB], The Dickeyville Grotto, Le Chêne Chapelle – The Chapel Oak, Yungang Grottoes, Cassadaga, Loretto Chapel, Natural Bridge of Virginia, Trinity Church on King George Island, Hindu Temple of Atlanta, Ostrog Monastery, Porta Alchemica, Dance of Death at Chapelle Kermaria an Iskuit, Ladder of Salvation of the Human Soul, Dream House, Cao Dai Holy See, Strahov Monastery , Balikli Gol, Hallstatt Charnel House , auroville, Basilica of the Holy Blood, Haw Par Villa, Wayfarers Chapel, Chicago Temple, Angelus Temple, Crystal Cathedral, The Great Pyramid of Cholula, Woodstock Mystery Hole, Jumping wall of Kildemock, Institute of Mentalphysics, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Kaplica Czaszek: The Chapel of Skulls, Church of St. Ursula, Capela de Ossos Bone Chapel, Masonic Temple of Philadelphia, Bylakuppe, St. Michan's Church, Fields of the Woods, Haesindang: Penis Park, The Cerne Abbas Giant, Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Khewra Salt Mines, Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel, Paro Taktsang: The Tiger's Nest Monastery, Minister's Tree House, Holy Mount of Athos, Solovki, Golden Summit Temple, Ushiku Daibutsu: The Great Buddha of Ushiku, Nihonji Daibutsu: The Great of Buddha of Nihonji, Showa Daibutsu: The Great Showa Buddha of Seiry?ji, Takaoka Daibutsu: The Great Buddha of Takaoka, T?daiji Daibutsuden: The Great Buddha Hall, Koreshan State Historic Site, Fontanelle Cemetery Caves, Church of the Frescoes, The dome illusion, Der Teufelstritt (The Devil's Footprint), Petra, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Rushton Triangular Lodge, Davelis Cave on Pendeli Mountain, The Nazi Graveyard of Brazil, Vardzia, Brioni, Creation and Earth History Museum, Bone Chapel, Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum

Eccentric Homes

Reames Arborsmith Studios, Prague Astronomical Clock , Bishop's Castle, Bory Castle, Cano's Castle, Mapparium, Harry Andrews' Chateau Laroche, Mystery Castle, Tower of Eben-Ezer, Stephansdom Crypt, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Neuschwanstein Castle, Linderhof Palace, Cotswold Olimpicks, Jindo-Modo Landbridge, Burg Pfalzgrafenstein, Georges Island, Quinta da Regaleira, Midlothian Castle, Art House, Mary Nohl House, Raven's Grin Inn, Hole in the Rock, The Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Casa Rocca Piccola, Rubel Castle, North Dumpling Island, Smith Tower Penthouse, The Flintstone House, The Triangle House of St. Paul, Minnesota, Portmeirion Village, The Submarine House, Casa Saldarini, Atlanta White House, The Dwarf Castle, TinkerTown, Le Palais Idéal, Graceland Too, The Uros People of Lake Titicaca, Coober Pedy, Giant Rock, The Bottle House, Big Duck, Thunder mountain monument, Hammond Castle Museum, Korowai Tree Houses, Waldspirale, Forestiere Underground Gardens, Solomon's Castle, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, The Yard Art of Sonoma County, Ponte Tower, Porta Alchemica, Quartiere Coppedé, Hotel Sidi Driss, Gates Co-op Houseboat Community, Kelburn Castle, Dream House, The Mansion on O Street, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Pavlov's House, Ace of Clubs House, Hamtramck Disneyland, Lookout Mountain Airforce Station, Fonthill Museum, Catherine de Medici's Chamber of Secrets, Skinny House, Scotty's Castle, Art Nouveau in Riga, The Witch's House, Principality of Hutt River, Slab City California, Pythagoras Cave, Minister's Tree House, The Kingdom of Boomeria, La Sebastiana, Ware Hall House, Luna Parc, Albion Castle, Munster Mansion, Towers of Svaneti, Heidelberg Project, Youngwood Court, Mesa Verde National Park, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Down House, Pasaquan: Home of St. EOM, Russell-Cotes Museum

Follies and Grottoes

The Winchester Mystery House, Neuschwanstein Castle, Linderhof Palace, Onan's Gold Pyramid House, Quinta da Regaleira, Fremont Troll, Crystal Grottoes Caverns, Pulgas Water Temple, Acorn Park, Portmeirion Village, Anza Borrego Desert View Tower, Le Palais Idéal, Fairytale Grotto Line, Los Pozas Surrealist Follies, Nutty Narrows Bridge, Suoi Tien Cultural Theme Park, The Bridge of Flowers, The Dickeyville Grotto, Schloss Hellbrunn, Lucy the Elephant, Budapest Agriculture Museum, Grottenbahn, Providence Home Geode Grotto, The Queen Chateau Soapland, Howard Finster's Paradise Gardens, Rushton Triangular Lodge, Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key, Lyford's Tower, Ninfeo di Villa Litta

Horticultural Marvels

Brigits Celtic Garden, Bok Tower Gardens, Alnwick Poison Gardens, Korowai Tree Houses, Gilroy Gardens, The Chair That Grew, Waldspirale, Le Chêne Chapelle – The Chapel Oak, Auerworld Palace, Forestiere Underground Gardens, Torre Guinigi (Guinigi Tower), Wayfarers Chapel, the New Orleans Treehouse, Svalbard Seed Bank, Oak Beams, New College Oxford, Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Longleat Hedge Maze, Wooden Books of Padova University, The Upside Forest of Mendenhall Gardens, Buenos Aires Recoleta Cemetery, Velaslavasay Panorama, Woolsthorpe Manor, Peace Maze of Northern Ireland, Garden of Cosmic Speculation, The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove, The Maize Maze

Incredible Ruins

Tower of Eben-Ezer, The Last Handwoven Bridge, Gobekli Tepe, Eastern State Penitentiary, Georges Island, The Baalbek Trilithon, Camp Hero, Konstantynow Radio Tower Remains, Gedi Ruins, Site of operation Backfire, The Pyramid of North Dakota, Open Pit Asbestos Mine at Thetford Mines, Murud Janjira fort , Newgrange, Lepenski Vir, Bedford Limestone Pyramid, The Cemetery of the Danvers Hospital for the Criminally Insane , Portals of the Past, Dreamer's Gate, The Great Serpent Mound, The Weyburn Mental Hospital, Ruins of the Sutro Baths, externsteine, Mary King's Close, Chernobyl's Ghost Cities, Seattle Underground , Vasa Museum, Eagle Lake Tramway, Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza, Toniná , The Ruins of St. Peter's Seminary, Schwerbelastungskörper, Ta Prohm, Hampi, The Bastei, Dinosaur of Ta Prohm, Gunkanjima Island, Maunsell Army Sea Forts, Templo de Debod, The Lost Town of Dunwich, Nan Madol Ruins, Rai Stones, Ruins of Yugoslav Army Headquarters, Tabula Traiana, Bain Waterworks Plant, Telegraph Island - Jazirat al Maqlab, Skara Brae, Perperikon, Ponte Tower, Abandoned Village of Kayakoy, Kelburn Castle, Malta Cart Tracks, America's Stonehenge (Mystery Hill), Old Zoo Picnic Area, Syntagma Square Metro Station, Flak Towers, Pavlov's House, L'Anse Aux Meadows, Ancient Stepwells of India, The Great Pyramid of Cholula, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, Bannerman's Castle, Old English Yard, Beelitz Heilstätten, Jumping wall of Kildemock, Great Isaac Cay , Plaza de Toros, Slaughterhouse Five, Veii, Anaconda Smelter Stack , Ruins of the Crystal Palace, Ruins of Cachtice Castle, Plain of Jars, Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet, Towers of San Gimignano, Immovable Ladder on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Wolf House - Jack London State Park, Marin Headlands Nike Missile Site, Batteries, and Bunkers, Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Newnes Glow Worm Tunnel, Dry Tortugas, The Akasaka Love Hotel, The Nitrate Towns of Chile, The Queen Chateau Soapland, Akeno Gekijo: Ruined Japanese Stripclub, The Pearl Love Hotel, The World Discoverer, Hven, Antro della Sibilla (Cave of the Sibyl), The Hotel Royal, Petra, Smallpox Hospital, Landsford Canal State Park, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, St. Augustine Airplane Graveyard, The Stonework of Machu Picchu, Admiral's Row, Miami Circle, Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Overseas Railroad and Pigeon Key, Krak des Chevaliers, Mesa Verde National Park, The Museum of Roman Ships at Fiumicino, Abandoned Russian Village, Burcardo Theater Museum, Vardzia, Discovery Hut, Kristiansand Kanonmuseum, LA-88 Nike Missile Base, Teufelsberg, 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, Il Gigante, Wiltshire's Secret Underground City: The Burlington Nuclear Bunker, Fort Zverev, Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

Mazes

The Lost Garden of Schloss Schonbrunn, Labyrint Drielandenpunt, Mazzariello Labyrinth , Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, World's Largest Plant Maze, Labyrinthos Caves, Ashcombe Maze, Longleat Hedge Maze, The Kingdom of Boomeria, Villa Pisani Labirinto, Peace Maze of Northern Ireland, Hampton Court Maze, The Maize Maze

Outsider Architecture

The American Visionary Art Museum, Reames Arborsmith Studios, Ave Maria Grotto, Bishop's Castle, Bory Castle, Broken Angel, The Casa De Flor, Cano's Castle, Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle, Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral, Dr. Evermore's Forevertron, Eliphante, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Father Paul Dobberstein's Grotto of the Redemption, House on the Rock, Karl Junker House, La Maison Picassiette, Mapparium, Harry Andrews' Chateau Laroche, Mystery Castle, Nek Chand Sani, Nitt Witt Ridge, Palais Idéal du Docteur Cheval, Quigley's Castle, Rhinestone Cowboy House at the JMK Arts Center, Musee Robert Tatin, Salvation Mountain, The Beer Can House, The Garden of Eden, Owl House , Tower of Eben-Ezer, Watts Towers , Bruno Weber's Weinrebenpark , The Winchester Mystery House, Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park, Republic of Kugelmugel, The Last Handwoven Bridge, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Sumela Monastery, The Headington Shark, Onan's Gold Pyramid House, The Salt Palace, Paper House, Jason de Caires Taylor's Underwater Sculpture Garden, Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, Carhenge, Temple of Damanhur, The Corn Palace, Pigeon Towers of Iran, City Museum, Midlothian Castle, Gliwice Radio Tower, Arcosanti, Cayuga Park, Berlin Radio Tower, Electricity Pylons of Cadiz, Brück aerial testing facility, Opus 40, Georgia Guidestones, The Highline, Rubel Castle, Maryhill Museum and Stonehenge, Acorn Park, Portmeirion Village, Pionen Data Center, Bedford Limestone Pyramid, Dreamer's Gate, Hartman's Rock Garden, Anza Borrego Desert View Tower, externsteine, Nimis, catedral de sal de zipaquira, Graceland Too, The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Crazy Horse Memorial, Cadillac Ranch, Land of the Lost, The Root Bridges of Cherrapungee, Big Duck, Biosphere 2, Abita Mystery House, World Reclamation Art Project, Ryugyong Hotel, Gilroy Gardens, The Chair That Grew, The Dickeyville Grotto, Waldspirale, The Vine Bridges of Iya Valley, Auerworld Palace, The Spiral Jetty, Tower 5 of Felskinn Aerial Tramway, The Orange Show, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Quartiere Coppedé, Balikli Gol, Haw Par Villa, The Integratron, Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum, Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Healing Center, Fonthill Museum, Evolver, Slab City California, the New Orleans Treehouse, Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Standing wave at Habitat '67, Montreal, The Kingdom of Boomeria, The Goat Tower of Fairview Cheese & Wine farm, Zeum Carousel, Buenos Aires Recoleta Cemetery, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, Heidelberg Project, Cathedral of Junk, Pasaquan: Home of St. EOM, Palacio Barolo, Sutyagin House

Repositories of Knowledge

Mundaneum, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Crypt of Civilization, The Haunted Bookshop, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Elsewhere Collaborative, The Dental Museum and Mummy of Racibórz , Victoria’s Way Indian Sculpture Park, Gordon Museum, Graceland Too, Crazy Horse Memorial, Titan Missile Museum, Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, Aoyama Technical School, John Hay Library, Larry Spring School of Common Sense Physics, Porta Alchemica, Strahov Monastery , Szabo Ervin Library, Haw Par Villa, Rundetårn, Chemical Heritage Foundation, The Wildgoose Memorial Library, Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Slaughterhouse Five, McFarthest Spot, Pythagoras Cave, Svalbard Seed Bank, Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library, Mormon Genealogical Archives, Oak Beams, New College Oxford, Wooden Books of Padova University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, The Kingdom of Boomeria, La Sebastiana, Maria Mitchell Association, Mechanics' Institute Library and Chess Room, Buenos Aires Recoleta Cemetery, Edgar Cayce A.R.E. Library, "El Gigante" and the stone Moai of Easter Island, The Stonework of Machu Picchu, Prelinger Library, Hale Solar Laboratory, Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, The Absinthe Museum, Herschel Museum of Astronomy , Wiltshire's Secret Underground City: The Burlington Nuclear Bunker, Palacio Barolo, American Alpine Club Library

Subterranean Sites

The Great Stalacpipe Organ, Stephansdom Crypt, G-Cans: the World's Largest Drain , Wieliczka Salt Mine, Neptune's Grotto, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Paris Sewer Museum, Bochnia Salt Mine, Salzwelten: The Hallstatt Salt Mine, The Kansas Underground Salt Museum, Catacombes de Paris, Temple of Damanhur, Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, Cactus Dome, Cu Chi Tunnels, Quinta da Regaleira, The Diefenbunker, Havre Beneath the Streets, Basilica di San Clemente, Crystal Grottoes Caverns, Casa Rocca Piccola, Williamson Tunnels, Pionen Data Center, Hana Lava tube , Basilica Cisterns of Istanbul, Mary King's Close, Mercer Caverns, Titan Missile Museum, Coober Pedy, Seattle Underground , La Cathedrale d'Images, The Shanghai Tunnels, Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten, Forestiere Underground Gardens, Walter De Maria's Vertical Earth Kilometer, The Lost Town of Dunwich, Skara Brae, Hotel Sidi Driss, Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker, St. Beatus Cave, City Hall Station, Lower Bay Station, Weeki Wachee: City of Live Mermaids, The Great Pyramid of Cholula, Woodstock Mystery Hole, Brno Ossuary, Labyrinthos Caves, Stalin's Bunker, Royston Cave , Kola Superdeep Borehole, Svalbard Seed Bank, Marin Headlands Nike Missile Site, Batteries, and Bunkers, Underwater Music Festival, Khewra Salt Mines, Detroit Salt Mine, Mormon Genealogical Archives, Yucca Mountain Repository, The Kingdom of Boomeria, Fontanelle Cemetery Caves, Antro della Sibilla (Cave of the Sibyl), Petra, McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, The River Fleet, The Grottoes of Folx-les-Caves, Davelis Cave on Pendeli Mountain, Vardzia, Kristiansand Kanonmuseum, The Gates of Hell, Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum, Wiltshire's Secret Underground City: The Burlington Nuclear Bunker, Naval Underground Headquarters, Fort Zverev, The Manzana de las Luces, Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

Haikyo

The Akasaka Love Hotel, The Queen Chateau Soapland, Akeno Gekijo: Ruined Japanese Stripclub, The Pearl Love Hotel, The Hotel Royal, Abandoned Russian Village

Giant Buddhas

Golden Summit Temple, Ushiku Daibutsu: The Great Buddha of Ushiku, Nihonji Daibutsu: The Great of Buddha of Nihonji, Showa Daibutsu: The Great Showa Buddha of Seiry?ji, Takaoka Daibutsu: The Great Buddha of Takaoka, T?daiji Daibutsuden: The Great Buddha Hall, World's largest seated bronze outdoor Buddha

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