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One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.

The first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was established in Hays, Kansas, years before better known cemeteries with the same name.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.

An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.