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The Big Blue Heeler in Muswellbrook, New South Wales. (Wikimedia Commons)

Muswellbrook, Australia

Big Blue Heeler

Standing in celebration of where the cattle dog was bred.

The Big Prawn.

West Ballina, Australia

The Big Prawn

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

World's largest prairie chicken.

Rothsay, Minnesota

World’s Largest Prairie Chicken

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

Little Merrit's Tomb

Oxford, New York

Little Merrit's Tomb

A small window was installed in this gravestone to honor a young boy's dying wish.

The Gallery of Shorthand

Central Islip, New York

The Gallery of Shorthand

A museum that houses a collection of stenography machines plus dozens of books, photographs, and guides to shorthand languages from around the world.

Olafur Eliasson: The Parliament of Reality

Red Hook, New York

Olafur Eliasson: The Parliament of Reality

A journey to a hand-crafted island involves a trip across this lattice bridge.

Inside the Knockdown Center.

Queens, New York

Knockdown Center

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

View from Westchester Avenue.

Bronx, New York

Westchester Avenue Station

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

Wassaic Beehive Charcoal Kilns

Wassaic, New York

Wassaic Beehive Charcoal Kilns

These conical kilns measure an impressive 30 feet in diameter, and were once used to produce charcoal for a local blast furnace.

The exterior of the barn is also covered with signs.

Branchport, New York

The DeGeorge Barn

Explore an enormous collection of original Americana tucked away in a small hamlet.

The cement sphinx.

Bayport, New York

The Long Island Sphinx

A century ago, aspiring socialites climbed on this cement beast with the hopes of marrying a millionaire.

The view from Cobbs Hill Park

Rochester, New York

Cobb’s Hill

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

Cobblestone Museum

Albion, New York

Cobblestone Museum

Intact 125-year-old carpentry shop and Victorian house, along with cobblestone architecture structures.

Fontana Boathouse

Buffalo, New York

Fontana Boathouse

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

Pacific Heights
Permanently Closed

San Francisco, California

Museum of Exotica

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

Monarch the Bear at Cal Academy

San Francisco, California

Monarch the Bear

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

The final marker

San Francisco, California

Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

'World Sources of Food'

San Francisco, California

'World Sources of Food'

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

'The Rising Tide'

Haugesund, Norway

'The Rising Tide'

A unique sculpture designed to outline humanity's reliance on oil.

'Untitled'

Lyngvær, Norway

'Untitled'

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

Minnehallen: The Hall of Remembrance

Larvik, Norway

Minnehallen: The Hall of Remembrance

Norway's national monument to fallen seamen.

Big Stone Mini Golf

Minnetrista, Minnesota

Big Stone Mini Golf

Sculpture garden and miniature golf course blend together in the oversized backyard of a Minnesota sculptor.

The restored steamboat Minnehaha.

Excelsior, Minnesota

The Steamboat Minnehaha

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

The buildings of Anoka State Hospital.

Anoka, Minnesota

Anoka State Hospital

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

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