Oddity Visits

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2013

Cool as Metal in Wisconsin: The Bronze Fonze

Big Foot Forever (BFF): Return to the International Cryptozoology Museum

Mardi Gras in Massachusetts: Jordan's Furniture

Gigantic Gumshoe: The Dick Tracy Statue

Alien Architecture: The Space Needle

These Colors Run: The Bloody Lincoln Flag

It's a Scream, Baby: Edvard Munch's "The Scream"

Giant Muppet Ninja: The Boston Mural of Os Gemeos

Memento Mummy: Pa-Ib and the Echoes of Egypt Exhibit

They're Suppositories, Mr. Rogo: Ernest Borgnine Park

A Total Perspective Vortex: The Mapparium

Tonight I'll Sleep on a Bird of Nails: Will Ryman's Bird

Funeral Home Purgatory: The Grave of Spaghetti, the Carny Mummy

The Inside-Out Museum: Cabela's

Rockin' the Cashel: The Rock of Cashel

Frenching the Irish: The Blarney Stone

That's Not a Toy: The Bread and Puppet Museum

A Home in the Sticks: Patrick Dougherty's "Room by Room"

The Hunt for Gray October: The H.L. Hunley

Creatures on a Stick: The New England Carousel Museum

Your Corpse Will Not Be So Majestic: Boneyard Beach

The Art Museum as Refrigerator: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Richard Pryor for Sale: The FAO Schwarz Flagship Store

Better Than Nature: The American Museum of Natural History

Six Feet South: Magnolia Cemetery

Hold On to Your Butts: Discover the Dinosaurs

Georgia Preach: The Childhood Home of Flannery O'Connor

2012

A Home Where the Alligators Foam: The Audubon Swamp Garden

There is Water at the Bottom of the Ocean: Hopewell Rocks

Pirate Sway: The Execution Site of the Gentleman Pirate

Disheveled Decay: Unitarian Church Cemetery

It Takes a Village to Make a Candle: The Yankee Candle Village

Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Eternal Father of the Sea Chapel

A Ghost Town...On Fire: Return to Centralia, PA

The Blue, the Gray, the Red, and the Gory: The National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Graveyard with an Accent: British Cemetery

OTIS Miscellany II

Dead Animals and Christmas Shopping: Taxidermy at the Kittery Trading Post

It Is a Rock: Alcatraz Island

About Faces: Bellows Falls Petroglyphs

Salem, MA: 2012

Gilson Road Cemetery

Sleepy Hollow, NY: 2012

Great Pumpkin Blaze

Day of the Dead Altar

Lowell Cemetery

Ghostbuster Sites

Tromaville

Rod Serling Sites

Haunted Barn Movie Museum

Rolling Hills Asylum

Ouija Board Grave

Skull and Noose of a Murderer

Wilder Brain Collection

Tahawus Ghost Town

Ripley's Shrunken Heads

Woodlawn Cemetery

Fox Sisters Monuments

Walloomsac Inn

Brooklyn Mummies

Jekyll and Hyde Club and Pub

Frankenstein Cliff

Ferncliff Cemetery

Edgar Allan Poe's New York

Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard

Odd Trees I've Seen: The Granby Oak and Pinchot Sycamore

Facelift and a Body Wrap: Return to Padihershef, the Mummy of Mass General

Hollywood Walk of Fame and Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Joseph Steward Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities

Site of Blackbeard's Death

Mount St. Helens

Porta Alchemica

Kirk Douglas Park

Our Lady Queen of Peace Statue

Dighton Rock

Edgar Allan Poe's Graves, Revisited

Hampton Beach Sand Sculptures

Neptune Statue

Beans in the Belfry

Cliffs of Moher

Sea Captains' Burial Ground

Winchester Mystery House

B-52 Bomber Crash Site

B18 Bomber Crash Site

Mystic Aquarium

OTIS Miscellany

Dark Shadows Filming Sites

Tesla's Wardenclyffe

Andres Institute of Art

Roger Williams Park Zoo

Richmond Vampire/Hollywood Cemetery

Florence Cathedral

Death Rock of Alexander Hamilton

Madame Tussauds New York

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Mac Tonight

Kinnitty Castle

Montserrat

Sagrada Familia

Barcelona, Spain

Road to Rochester...ish (Video)

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

Pradbhupada's Palace of Gold

Paper House

L. Frank Baum's Yellow Brick Road

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Cloud Gate

Benson Park

2011

Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond, Part 2: Everything Not the Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond, Part 1: Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Christmas in Manhattan

Newseum Murderbilia

Toys "R" Us Times Square

Museum of Purgatory

Cheers Bar (Video)

Odd Things My Wife's Seen II

Redwood National and State Parks

Field Museum

Archer-Gilligan Murder Home

Headless Horseman Chase Route (Video)

Return to Sleepy Hollow

Grave of a Werewolf (Video)

Old Granary Burying Ground Skeleton Art

Grave of Ichabod Crane

Moll Dyer Stone

Rue York

Grave of the Vampire's Clasp

Tim Burton Exhibit

Edgar Allan Poe's Boston

Famous Graves

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum

Buffalo-Area Miscellany

Serial Killer Lions

Mouth of Truth and St. Valentine's Skull

Gillette Castle

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Maine Giantess

"Forever Marilyn" Statue

Dinosaur Land

Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Pompeii and Vesuvius, Part II: The Destroyer

Kenny Loggins

Pompeii and Vesuvius, Part I: The Destroyed

Mystery Stone of Lake Winnipesaukee

Venice and "Don't Look Now" Church

Catamount People's Museum

Capuchin Crypt

New England Aquarium

Galileo's Fingers

Fountains of Rome

Dario Argento Museum of Horror

Cushing Brain Collection

Victor Emmanuel Monument

Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God"

Funspot and American Classic Arcade Museum

Burren and Poulnabrone Dolmen

Eartha

La Brea Tar Pits

Robot Hall of Fame

Boston Museum of Science

Grave Creek Mound

Libby Museum

West Virginia State Penitentiary

The Awakening Sculpture, Part II

Sea Lion Caves and Pier 39

Trundle Manor

2010

Archbald Pothole

Christmas Light Festivals

The Christmas Loft

Hershey's Chocolate World (Christmas Edition)

ICE!: How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Udvar-Hazy Center

Forsaith Forest Pitcher Plants

Close Encounters Mothership

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Exhibit

Space Shuttle Enterprise

SR-71 Blackbird

Carnivorous Cobra Lilies

Stephen King Movie Filming Sites

Bela Lugosi's Grave

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mt. Washington Auto Road

Exeter UFO Festival

Padihershef, Mummy of MGH

Green Mount Cemetery

John Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal

International Cryptozoology Museum

Edward Gorey House

The Nature Museum at Grafton

Dungeon Rock

Center Church Crypt

Panarchy Tomb Room

Skull Cliff

Louise Bourgeois' "Eyes"

Tall Ship "Bounty"

Sant Ocean Hall

Birthplace of L. Frank Baum

Grave of a Jack the Ripper Suspect

Twin Peaks Filming Locations

Jade Buddha for Universal Peace

Niagara Falls

Haystack Rock

Higgins Armory Museum

Haddonfield Hadrosaurus

Jack Kevorkian Paintings

U.S.S. Albacore

Newgrange Tomb

Tear of Grief

Odd Things My Wife's Seen

Anti-Gravity Monuments

Patrick Dougherty's "So Inclined"

Patrick Dougherty's "Twisted Sisters"

Abu Simbel

Woodman Institute Museum

Jonestown Massacre Mass Grave

Jim Henson Memorial

2009

Jerpoint Abbey

Budweiser Clydesdales

Fremont Troll

Mutter Museum

Elm Street (A Nightmare On)

Jumanji Mural/Keene Pumpkin Festival

Betty and Barney Hill Abduction, Part I

Betty and Barney Hill Abduction, Part II

Dinosaur State Park

Astoria, OR: Home of the Goonies

The Epic of American Civilization

Geisel Library

Seattle Underground

Timberline Lodge

Oregon State Hospital

Seattle-to-San Diego Road Trip (Video)

Peter Iredale Shipwreck

Vasquez Rocks

Madame Sherri Castle Ruins

Madison Boulder (Video)

Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery

Blood Cemetery (Video)

Mudgett House

Mythic Creatures Exhibit

Carl Sagan Memorial Planet Walk

Dan Aykroyd

New England Aquarium Seals

The Station Fire Site

Frog Bridge

House of Exorcism Boy

Spooner Well

Akai the Dolphin

2008

Jason Miller Bust

Dr. Seuss National Memorial

Reverance Whale Tails

Lake Champlain Monster

Flying Monkeys

Night of the Living Dead Cemetery

Claude Rains' Grave

Salem, MA

Sleepy Hollow, NY, Part I

Sleepy Hollow, NY, Part II

Musica

Country Tavern Restaurant

Garfield's Tomb

Patrick Dougherty's "Square Roots"

The Gates of Hell

Science of Aliens Exhibit

ex-Princess Theatre

Danvers State Hospital

Danvers State Hospital, Revisited

C.S. Lewis Centenary Statue

Drive-Through Safaris

William Butler Yeats Statue

Charlie Chaplin Statue

Oscar Wilde Statue

Philip Lynott Statue

Christ Church Cathedral's Crypt

St. Michan's Crypt

Giant's Causeway

Ballygally Castle Hotel's Ghost Room

House of the Seven Gables

H.P. Lovecraft

Harry Houdini's Grave

Hope Diamond

Mystery Hill

2007

Mercy Brown, Vampire

Barnum Museum

R2-D2 Mailboxes

Lizzie Borden B&B, Part I

Lizzie Borden B&B, Part II

Stephen King's House

Exorcist Stairs

Edgar Allan Poe's Statue

Edgar Allan Poe's Graves

Burkittsville, MD

Blackbeard's House

Eastern State Penitentiary

Stonehenge

Mummies of Philippi

Cave of Kelpius

Centralia, PA

Dark Crystal Skeksis

Monroeville Mall

Mothman Statue

Great Pyramid

The Awakening Sculpture

Graceland

Three Mile Island

War of the Worlds Monument