Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Ferropolis
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.
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Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.
Nye, Nevada
Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.
Moreira do Rei, Portugal
A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.
Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Capalbio, Italy
Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.
Saint-Georges-des-Sept-Voies, France
Beautiful carved tunnels.
Buendía, Spain
Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.
Figueres, Spain
Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.
Columbus, Georgia
A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
Stavanger, Norway
Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.
Carlsbad, California
This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.
Xilin Gol, China
Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Denver, Colorado
Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.
Budapest, Hungary
The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Changzhou Shi, China
This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.
Chile
A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.