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Katy, Texas

Forbidden Gardens

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.
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South Andaman, India

Netaji Shubash Chandra Bose Island

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.
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West Palm Beach, Florida

Unit 11 in the Everglades

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.
Evenkiysky District, Russia

Tunguska Event Epicenter

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
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Portland, Oregon

Vaux's Swifts at Chapman School

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.
Bournemouth, England

Bournemouth Natural Science Society

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
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Madison, New Hampshire

Madison Boulder

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.
Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland

Frog Museum

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.
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Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Rhinestone Cowboy House at the JMK Arts Center

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.
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Bournemouth, England

Russell-Cotes Museum

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.
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Taylors Falls, Minnesota

Old Man of the Dalles

A stone face watches over the river.
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Waukegan, Illinois

Dead River

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.
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Bagley, Minnesota

Bagley Wildlife Museum

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest.
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Kholmogorskiy rayon, Russia

Sutyagin House.

What once claimed to be the world's tallest single-family wooden structure house.
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Tighnabruaich, Scotland

Polphail Village

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.
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Beverley, England

Beverley Messenger Rabbit

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?
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Chicago, Illinois

The 606 aka Bloomingdale Trail

The 606 is a decade in the making.
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Austin, Minnesota

Spam Museum

Ever wanted to can Spam?
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