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Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Since the 1700s, this old barrel has acted as a post box that relies on the kindness of travelers.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

Home of the "true" equator.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

A Very Low Frequency transmitter you can tune in on your PC.

The lost American era of gunfighters, bandits, Indians and steam trains is recreated in Sweden.

This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.