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Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

An underground city of salt.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A cargo of beautiful music.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.