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This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

Dedicated to the neverending mathematical constant, this plaque next to a park bench was sponsored by an anonymous benefactor.

Unbeknownst to many, this fountain was erected as a tomb and still holds the remains of a Frenchman.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

In Oklahoma City's Bricktown, there's a street that don't use jelly.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.