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The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A retired military stronghold on the rolling green coast of Donegal.

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The hottest place on the planet.

Natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

Are these prehistoric metal pipes evidence of alien plumbers? Nope, but they are amazing nonetheless.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.