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A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

A wooden dock art installation on Chiloé Island taps into the island's indigenous mythology.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.