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Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.