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Artist Scott Hocking took a dilapidated 1890s barn to create his massive "Barnboat."

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

A young Gustave Eiffel assisted in the construction of this skinny metal observation tower.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

This ordinary-looking rock may have played an important role in a 16th-century Scottish battle.

In the middle of a forest you can find the first landing place of an air balloon in the Netherlands.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

An Art Deco Icarus statue adorns this abandoned gem of Yugoslav Modernist architecture.

The "Key of Keys" for Washington, D.C. and the apocryphal landing place for the military campaign that started George Washington's career is now at the bottom of a well.

A 15th-century park that recreates a bit of the Holy Land in Italy.

This metal sculpture is a tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which had a station in the village that has now been converted into a library.

Here lies a legend of three sisters, all in love with the same mariner.

To find the final resting place of a golf legend, just look for the grave covered in golf balls.

This large replica wagon tells the story of the booming wool industry in this small Australian town.

A 19th-century Neoclassical building now housing a Hindu temple represents modern-day Glasgow at its most multicultural.

A series of magical limestone formations along the coastline of the country island of Antigua.

Some believe Ponce de León's mystical spring lurks right under a public drinking fountain.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.