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The Indecent Little Man of St James Church

Brno, Czechia

The Indecent Little Man on the Church of St. James

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

Shit Fountain

Chicago, Illinois

Shit Fountain

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne, England

The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

The Old Man of Storr.

Isle of Skye, Scotland

The Old Man of Storr

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Ash Cave.

Logan, Ohio

The Caves of Hocking Hills State Park

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The Quiraing.

Isle of Skye, Scotland

The Quiraing

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A daytime view of the grate, looking north on Lexington Avenue towards the corner of 52nd Street.

New York, New York

Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Grate

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

Au Roi de la Bière

Paris, France

Au Roi de la Bière

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Conroy in the bakery.

Brooklyn, New York

Abu's Homestyle Bakery

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Horticulture students showing off their work.

Ithaca, New York

The Cornell Apple Vending Machine

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

Calumet Fisheries

Chicago, Illinois

Calumet Fisheries

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The Library of Mistakes

Edinburgh, Scotland

Library of Mistakes

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Potoooooooo

Newmarket, England

Potoooooooo

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

Staufen geothermal cracks 2016 (some repairs made between 2013-2016)

Staufen im Breisgau, Germany

The Cracking Buildings of Staufen

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

Half beaver, half tiger.

Irkutsk, Russia

The Irkutsk Babr

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

The Barnes grave.

Ashmore, Illinois

St. Omer Cemetery Witch Grave

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Inside El Batey.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

El Batey

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

Scrabble Grave, Helen Cornelius Bowden

Park Ridge, Illinois

Scrabble Grave

A board game enthusiast's love for the game, memorialized forever.

"STONEMASON S.P. ANDERSSON ... KILLED BY THIS STONE ON 22 JUNE 1880 ... FRIENDS RAISED THE STONE"

Malmö, Sweden

Sven P. Andersson’s Gravestone

The very rock that killed the stonemason marks his grave.

Baldwin Street

Dunedin, New Zealand

Baldwin Street Houses

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

Monument at the entry of the cemetery

San Sebastián, Spain

The English Cemetery at San Sebastián

The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.

Coleman Theatre

Miami, Oklahoma

Coleman Theatre

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

Interior courtyard at the cemetery

Miami, Florida

Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Cemetery

This Miami cemetery holds the remains of two Cuban presidents, a Nicaraguan president, and the senior Desi Arnaz. And it was once the resting place of the crown prince of Spain.

The Chair That Grew

Clintonville, Wisconsin

The Chair That Grew

A 100-year-old chair with joints "cemented by nature."

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