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Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

These ancient giraffes are the largest known animal petroglyphs in the world.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

A popular 19th-century natural landmark is now hidden within a sprawling forest.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Remnants of the Nazis' occupation of Denmark linger along the sand.