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In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

World's largest carved onyx figure stands as a tribute to enduring peace.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

Museum with an extensive collection of Cray supercomputers and related artifacts.

The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

Lake within a lake.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

A rural hall of justice holds the world's only comic book and superhero museum.

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.