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This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

A vast, otherworldly collection of Buddhist stupas.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.