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This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

This impressive midden of scallop shells apparently all comes from a single fishing company.

A woodland close to England's "most haunted village" has been the site of many unexplained events and deaths.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

This massive sculptural work outside of Paris was four decades in the making—and it's still not quite complete.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

This igneous rock monolith towers above the surrounding landscape just outside the Nigerian capital.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

These 400 million-year-old caves feature honeycomb limestone formations.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.