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A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Once upon a time these giant concrete tanks were used by local fishermen to clean their wild-caught mussels.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

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

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This likeness of the famous revolutionary is entirely made of recycled scraps of metal.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.