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A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

The viewpoint for this attractive, off-the-beaten-path waterfall is reached by a paved, wheelchair-accessible trail.

This underground cave located in the most barren reaches of Idaho is filled with ice year-round.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.