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The grave of Karl Eversberg is another grave of a fallen soldier, but Karl's story is one of revenge, defiance in the face of defeat, and the final act of WW1

A remote memorial to Major Michael Adams, the only test pilot to lose his life in the X-15 rocket plane program

Commemorating the nine-year-old and his pony's 965 kilometers solo ride to Sydney in 1932 for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

A junction in the Death Valley backcountry marked by old crankshafts

A seemingly cursed public sculpture commemorating a local athletics hero has finally found a home, but traces of the original can still be found in the rose bushes

This sculpture with hundreds of details made from corn dough was named the largest tortilla in the world in 2013

A Bronze Age burial site thought to be over 4000 years old

A fascinating collection of Scottish late-medieval carved stones

Ruins of this late 19th-century mining camp are right on Nevada State Route 266

Drive or walk through part of a former medieval monastery

A beloved postmaster’s lonely walk home ended in a wooded ambush

A folkloric creature relieving itself at the summer solstice

A pink giant of fibreglass and metal watching the Eyre Highway from a rural roadside

This cross between a retro arcade and a living museum provides visitors with the opportunity to operate antique coin-operated automatons, games, and other machines

Two alleyways in Suzhou Old Town offer a slice of life in Shanghai's French Concession, and served as a private home-away-from-home for one of 1920s Shanghai’s most infamous gangsters

An abstract monument by the famous Berlin sculptor Georg Kolbe for Emil and Walther Rathenau with an eventful history

For a city that is so rife with gleaming statues and memorials in alabaster and bronze, this occultish-looking wooden example poses more questions than it answers

The richest man in Mexico built the largest aquarium in Latin America 26 meters underground