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A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

The world's only known button museum.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.