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This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

Though it's unclear why it's there, the lifelike sculpture of the giant lizard is oddly charming.

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.