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Spheres

(Flickr/F.d.W.)

Davenport, Australia

Devil's Marbles

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

(Flickr/Pedronet)

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Emirates National Auto Museum

The opulent car collection of an eccentric Sheikh housed in his own private pyramid.

An idyllic setting for a love nest

L'Etoile de l'Amour

Fur-lined metal pod dangling in the French countryside.

The Big Bowl in Lake Cathie, New South Wales. (Wikimedia Commons)

Lake Cathie, Australia

Big Bowl

Australian holiday town hosts world's largest bowling ball.

Area 66

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

The world's largest popcorn ball. (The Popcorn Factory)

World's Largest Popcorn Ball

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

The Moeraki Boulders at sunrise. (Wikimedia Commons)

Hampden, New Zealand

Moeraki Boulders

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Vienna, Austria

Republic of Kugelmugel

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Boston, Massachusetts

Mapparium Globe

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Darwin, Minnesota

World's Largest Ball of Twine Rolled by One Man

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.