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This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

The humble tomb of an Argentine general, hand-built by his son using stones brought down from the Andes.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."