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This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

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

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This one-room schoolhouse in rural Arkansas dates to the 1920s, but looks like it could be the 1820s.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.