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A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

Bizarre Cavern.

A scenic overlook of a pit mine hundreds of meters deep filled with blue water.

One car at a time please.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

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