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Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The unique circular corral belonging to the “Cattle King” of Oregon.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.