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A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

This life-size monument honors the legacy of a famous literary feline.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

This museum started by a curious collector is now a place for believers and skeptics alike.

An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

A bizarre statue of a Buddhist goddess made from 20,000 insects.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

A hidden Buddhist gem accessible only by boat.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.