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In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A small group of islands with a dramatic history.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.