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Cali Buckley

I'm a Ph.D. in art history and work on objects dealing with the history of science--specifically anatomical models. I write about my research and tours of early modern architecture on my blog: https://ivoryladies.wordpress.com/

https://pennstate.academia.edu/CaliBuckley

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Places visited in Nuremberg, Germany

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Places added to Liège, Belgium

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Places visited in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany

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Plana's Perpetual Calendar

A landmark in the history of technology and computing is hidden in a tiny Baroque chapel.

A J Oliveira

Added by A J Oliveira

The Dome of San Lorenzo

The intricate geometry inside this Baroque-style dome was designed to create "terror of the human soul."

StepYoshi

Added by StepYoshi

Medieval Village

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Annalisa

Added by Annalisa

Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Dylan

Altoona, Pennsylvania

Castle Halloween Museum

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Old Jail Museum

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

ldydonna

Added by ldydonna

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Weaver Historical Dental Museum

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

michelle

Added by michelle

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Science History Institute

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Homewood Cemetery

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

wickedwildflower

Added by wickedwildflower

Hardwick, New Jersey

Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Quakertown, Pennsylvania

Rosicrucian Pyramids of Bucks County

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Nervous System of 'Harriet Cole'

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Centralia, Pennsylvania

Centralia Ghost Town Church

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

mariellen

Added by mariellen

Norristown, Pennsylvania

American Treasure Tour

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Added by boomer1ny

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bartram's Garden

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

ljbrubaker

Added by ljbrubaker

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Center for PostNatural History

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Grip the Raven

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Dylan

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Weeping Glass

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

wickedwildflower

Added by wickedwildflower

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Trundle Manor: House of Oddities

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Added by VonMinx

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eastern State Penitentiary

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Dylan

Ocracoke, North Carolina

British Cemetery of Ocracoke

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

WhiskeyBristles

Added by WhiskeyBristles

Stuttgart, Germany

Unihase

Inside this discotheque resides a unique memorial dedicated to one club-goers favorite pet.

Added by ThomasSchneider62

Stuttgart, Germany

Stuttgart Cable Car

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

jfrank

Added by jfrank

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Bywater Museum of Unnatural History

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Added by patriciaburns013