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This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A replica that won't float away.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.