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Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.