Belconnen, Australia
Giant Mushroom
Children's playground hidden under a big pink and blue cap.
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Belconnen, Australia
Children's playground hidden under a big pink and blue cap.
Hexham, Australia
Modeled after the big, ferocious Hexham Grey mosquito.
Goulburn, Australia
Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.
Kiama, Australia
This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.
Sydney, Australia
Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.
Sydney, Australia
One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.
Sydney, Australia
A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.
Sydney, Australia
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Sydney, Australia
This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Hillsboro, New Mexico
Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Furnace Creek, California
This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Inyo County, California
Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.
Tonopah, Nevada
An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.
Tonopah, Nevada
There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.
Inyo County, California
Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.