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Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

Mine your own precious stones.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The great Danube river starts here.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

No one knows the origin of this small town’s unique name.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.