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A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Feed it cash, get your very own gold bar.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.