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Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A seaside cemetery honors the Commonwealth soldiers and sailors that died in Sierra Leone during World War I and II.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A geometric jumble of homes.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

The translucent turquoise hue of these natural swimming pools comes from a high concentration of minerals.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

Beirut's thinnest building was the result of feuding brothers.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

A 12th-century church that houses a dark creature.