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Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour has the unique status of being the only Royal Harbour in the United Kingdom.

Overlooking the seaside town of Margate stands a tribute to an artist's lover.

Europe's "only museum dedicated to the decapod" is full of quirky and absurdist displays, including one featuring the "famous" Giant Crab of Margate.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

This forgotten chalk mine was reopened thanks to a massive effort from the local community.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A sliver of nostalgia in Seattle's Viretta Park.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

This former brickworks pit is full of legends about its murky depths.

Locals have a long-running relationship with the big-beaked birds of this Australian fishing town.

For better or worse, this whimsical sculpture garden was a favorite place of Rupert Murdoch's.

This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.

You can climb to the top of the world's largest rocking horse.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

More than 100 colorful residents stand post in this seaside Australian city.