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An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

A rare example of a rural school in Washington, D.C.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

A Jurassic artscape composed of transmission casings and other mechanical parts.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.

These relics of the city's past now exist as a prominent modern feature.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

On one of the world's most active volcanoes, a pebble-filled crater changes color with the wind.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.