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This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

These five Art Deco homes were meant to solve the "small house problem."

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.