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A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit or something else altogether?

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

The world's tallest slum.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

Land that belongs to no nation.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.