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An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.