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The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A lost cemetery stands forgotten on a hilltop, known only to the older residents of Pomeroy.

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

This 85-year-old fireplace in an urban woodland is dedicated to a poet who recognized the beauty of a tree.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

This museum in the tower of the oldest church in Gdańsk, is home to centuries-old time-keeping devices and the world's first pulsar clock.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.