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This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

The remains of a chapel created for convenience.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.