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The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

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A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

A science teacher's dream.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.