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The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

One man's little-known private clock museum hides inside a historic farmhouse, set amidst the Austrian countryside.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.