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The grotto

Sperlonga, Italy

Villa of Tiberius

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

The Haverstraw house that inspired a painting and a film.

Haverstraw, New York

The House by the Railroad

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

Waters' Mill Ruins

Germantown, Maryland

Waters Mill Ruins

The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.

The bridge has been in the open position for decades.

Oxford, England

Rewley Road Swing Bridge

The remnants of this unusual bridge await an uncertain fate.

Wild West Chateau

Medora, North Dakota

Chateau de Mores

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

Cap Rocks

Glendive, Montana

Makoshika State Park

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

"Stan" the T-rex, on exhibit

Glendive, Montana

Glendive Dinosaur Museum

This museum is dedicated to telling the story of dinosaurs from a creationist perspective. 

Stones from the foundation of Roosevelt's house on the site.

Medora, North Dakota

Elkhorn Ranch

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

Noojee Trestle Bridge

Noojee, Australia

Noojee Trestle Bridge

This remnant of an old railroad is the tallest surviving wooden trestle bridge in Victoria.

The 516 Arouca Bridge is suspended above the Paiva River.

Arouca, Portugal

Ponte 516 Arouca

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

Henderson Waves.

Singapore

Henderson Waves

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

The Tridge

Midland, Michigan

The Tridge

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

North Carr Stone Beacon

Crail, Scotland

North Carr Stone Beacon

The remains of a 19th-century carving of what was to be a signal light on the Firth of Forth Estuary.

Artifacts from Boca.

Truckee, California

Boca

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

Erratic Rock State Natural Site

McMinnville, Oregon

Erratic Rock State Natural Site

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

The Museum of Mental Health

Salem, Oregon

Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

The H-4 Hercules, aka "Spruce Goose."

McMinnville, Oregon

The Spruce Goose

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

The museum as seen from the road.

McMinnville, Oregon

Evergreen Aviation Museum

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Docked.  Note the upper cable to which the ferryboat is tethered.

Salem, Oregon

Wheatland Ferry

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

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 bridge with Mount Nipesotsu behind it.

Kamishihoro, Japan

Taushubetsu River Bridge

An isolated "phantom bridge" doomed to crumble into ruin.

Lucky visitors to the Supreme Court play basketball.

Washington, D.C.

The Highest Court In the Land

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

Point Nemo

Antarctica

Point Nemo

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

Semināra iela/Sepa tänav border.

Valga, Estonia

Valga/Valka Border

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

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