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An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.